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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
Thanks wgrr, it's nice to have that laid to rest  Cleaned up the financial system lol.
Jefferson recanted later in life you know. As he got wiser you could say 
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Well the cleaning up of the banking system was tongue in cheek, but there was a class warfare battle in the time of Jesus' life on earth between the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
I am going to do a little research. It looks interesting. Very few people know that both Herod and Pilate both found Jesus innocent of his charges. It was the people that insisted he be put to death. The biggest problem is the New Testament was written many years after the death of Jesus. That leaves it open to a lot of skepticism.
That is funny, how can Jefferson recant for writing a book he never published. He finished "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth", which is the actual title, in 1820. He passed it around to friends to read. Jefferson died in 1826.
The book ended up in his great grand-daughters possession Until 1895 when she sold it to the Smithsonian for $400. It was published, for the first time in 1895, by The National Museum. In 2009 the Smithsonian did a restoration of the original book. It is public domain and anyone can publish it and many have.
My point is I suspect that if he "recanted" He would have destroyed the only copy. Instead he left it to his heirs to be immortalized into the history of this country.
I have read a lot about Jefferson over the years. There is a ton of mis-information out there concerning Jefferson's life, his writings, and letters. Bogus Jefferson quotes are used by the left and right in their signature lines all over the Internet. Even the quotes inscribed into the Jefferson Memorial are dicey. While the words are Jefferson's, a single quote may contain bits and pieces of various sentences in his extensive writings. Some quotes were rearranged from their original form to make Jefferson look more like a God fearing Christian.
http://www.monticello.org/site/jeffe...erson-memorial