Yet another Jefferson quote


The Chozen Few wrote:
"The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful
that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have
been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to
them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what
parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence
that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other
parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate
those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills."

-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814

That's what we Muslims have been saying about the Bible all along! If
Jefferson had been exposed to the purity of Islam, he might have
converted.

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Not quite so easy as that, I don't think, but maybe the rewards are worth
the trouble and mess, and I suspect Jefferson would've expressed a similar
attitude toward the Quran if the occasion had arisen.

I don't think so.

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