[merrylander]

The Smithsonian recently acquired Jefferson's Bible, all 84 pages long. He went through the King James version and extracted what he liked and did a cut and paste job.

What people seem to forget is that the bible was written by men (well maybe Ruth wrote her own section) it was not faxed down from above. Then it got translated by more men, and selectively edited by Constantine's flunkys, so there it is.

Personally we have found that to organized religion the 'organization' has become more important than the message, so we do not bother attending any church. Since I was raised attending a 'Union" church and my wife taught by nuns, we might have difficulty finding one church. That Union church had nowt to do with the AFL/CIO it was simply that the town was too small to have Anglican (God's frozen people), Presbyterian, Methodist, etc. denominations but it mainly followed United Church practices.