The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
Extracted Textually from the Gospels
Compiled by Thomas Jefferson
www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/
Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.

. . . Thomas Jefferson believed that the ethical system of Jesus was the finest the world has ever seen. In compiling what has come to be called "The Jefferson Bible," he sought to separate those ethical teachings from the religious dogma and other supernatural elements that are intermixed in the account provided by the four Gospels. He presented these teachings, along with the essential events of the life of Jesus, in one continuous narrative.

This presentation of The Jefferson Bible offers the text as selected and arranged by Jefferson in two separate editions: one edition uses a revised King James Version of the biblical texts, corrected in accordance with the findings of modern scholarship; the second edition uses the original unrevised KJV. The actual verses of the Bible used for both editions are those chosen by Jefferson. Visitors should find the revised KJV text much easier to read and understand. Those seeking the precise English version Mr. Jefferson used when making his compilation can click on "Unrevised KJV text."

FREEDOM OF RELIGION DOCUMENTS
URL: w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.jeffers.html

Jefferson on Religion
www.columbia.edu/~pen3/aha/gl/tjlet.html

Jefferson: The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom
www.tax-freedom.com/religion.htm

Six Historic Americans
Thomas Jeffersion
www.infidels.org/library/...ter_2.html
Had Jefferson's works been edited by some pious churchman who would have expunged or modified his radical sentiments; or had his works been suppressed after they were published, as some desired, the clergy might with less fear of exposure claim that their author was a Christian. But while his writings are accessible to the public, it adds nothing to their reputation for candor to make the claims respecting his belief which many of them do; for these writings clearly prove that he was not a Christian, but a Freethinker.

The roots of church/state separation
www.berkshire.net/~ifas/f...roots.html
Summary: The roots ofchurch/state separation By Barbara A. Simon, Esq. First coined by the 17th century Baptist leader Roger Williams who, in 1636, founded Rhode Island, the phrase "separation of church and state" was used by both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (the father of the Constitution), to describe the meaning of the Constitution's religion clauses.

The Separation of Church and State
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Summary: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state." ---Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Baptists of Danbury, CT, 1802

America's Real Religion
www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman/index.html

The Beeline - References: Religion: WeB Pix
www.bton.com/refs/religion/picks.html
Summary: "I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not better for it." -- Abraham Lincoln

UU Church of Nashua 100 Questions, Chapter 14
www.uunashua.org/100q/c14.html
Five United States presidents were Unitarians: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore and William Taft. While he did not specifically identify with any organized religion, Abraham Lincoln had Universalist

People of all beliefs are welcome to our church -- Christian, atheist, agnostic, and all other traditions. What binds us as a congregation is mutual respect, acceptance of one another, and encouragement in spiritual growth.

Thomas Jefferson
www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/tjefferson.html
Religion: No formal affiliation
Deist

John Adams
Religion: Unitarian

Many of the greatest thinkers were atheists, agnostics or deists with no respect for any church Thomas Jefferson (Deist) "History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

WORLD UNION OF DEISTS
". . . the opinions and beliefs of men . . . follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds."
Thomas Jefferson

Deism vs. Atheism & Christianity
www.deism.com/deism_vs.htm

DEISM - AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN RELIGION!
www.deism.com/DeistAmerica.htm
DEISM

People like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were avid readers of the great philosophers of the European Enlightenment. They treasured the ideas found in the works of such thinkers as Descartes, Voltaire, Bacon and Locke.

One of the cornerstone ideas of the Enlightenment was to give every idea and assumption the test of reason. When they applied reason to religion they found it necessary to strip it of revelation and they ended up with Deism. Deism is belief in God based on reason and nature. The differing alleged revelations of the various revealed religions are conspicuously absent from Deism. It is a natural religion as opposed to a revealed religion such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam.

American Historical Notes
www.jackherer.com/book/ch01.html

In 1619, America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia, "ordering" all farmers to "make tryal of" (grow) Indian hempseed. More mandatory (must-grow) hemp cultivation laws were enacted in Massachusetts in 1631, in Connecticut in 1632 and in the Chesapeake Colonies into the mid-1700s.

Even in England, the much-sought-after prize of full British citizenship was bestowed by a decree of the crown on foreigners who would grow cannabis, and fines were often levied against those who refused.

Cannabis hemp was legal tender (money) in most of the Americas from 1631 until the early 1800s. Why? To encourage American farmers to grow more.

You could pay your taxes with cannabis hemp throughout America for over 200 years.2

You could even be jailed in America for not growing cannabis during several periods of shortage, e.g., in Virginia between 1763 and 1767. (Herndon, G.M., Hemp in Colonial Virginia, 1963; The Chesapeake Colonies, 1954; L.A.Times, August 12, 1981; et al.)

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis on their plantations. Jefferson,3 while envoy to France, went to great expense - and even considerable risk to himself and his secret agents - to procure particularly good hempseeds smuggled illegally into Turkey from China. The Chinese Mandarins (political rulers) so valued their hempseed that they made its exportation a capital offense.

The United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp "plantations"* (minimum 2,000-acre farm) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton. Most of these plantations were located in the South or in the border states, primarily because of the cheap slave labor available prior to 1865 for the labor-intensive hemp industry.

What's in a Name? (U.S. Geography)

HEMPstead, Long Island; HEMPstead County, Arkansas; HEMPstead, Texas; HEMPhill, North Carolina; HEMPfield, Pennsylvania, among others, were named after cannabis growing regions, or after family names derived from hemp growing.

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Then came the Christian Crusading D.E.A.th Worshiping Reefer Madhatters addicting us to Fascist Fossil Fuels and Chemical Pharm aids.
DdC


"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."

Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, testifying to Congress on why marijuana should be made illegal, 1937.
(Marijuana Tax Act, signed Aug. 2, 1937; effective Oct. 1,
1937.)

PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
www.jackherer.com/book/ch13.html

MORE THAN SIXTY YEARS OF SUPPRESSION
www.jackherer.com/book/ch14.html

America was not founded on Christianity

Neither the trappings of robes, nor temples of stone, nor a fixed liturgy, nor an extensive literature or history is required to meet the test of beliefs cognizable under the Constitution as religious. So far as our law is concerned, one person's religious beliefs held for one day are presumptively entitled to the same protection as the beliefs of millions which have been shared for thousands of years.
-- Judge Jack Weinstein, New York State, 1977

The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
-- George Washington & John Adams, in a diplomatic message to Malta.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
-- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
--Thomas Jefferson

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1814

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1823

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise...
-- Thomas Jefferson, in a 1787 letter to his nephew

The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
-- Abraham Lincoln

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it.
-- James Madison.

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
-- James Madison, Federalist Papers 62

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which grant[s] a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
-- James Madison, 1794

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
-- Hillaire Belloc

Sacramental Cannabis
www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc...ental.html

"2000 YEARS OF DISBELIEF" by
James Haught? (Prometheus Books)

Use of Cannabis as Incense text
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Use of Cannabis as Incense pdf
www.etext.org/Politics/CRC/incense

The Drug War Is The Inquisition by Dan Russell
www.drugwar.com

Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=13.topic

Today's Violence is Firmly Rooted in History:
From Plunder by Raids to Plunder by Trade
www.slonet.org/~ied/frthaz.html

The Inquisitions: To Suppress Freedom Under the Flag of Freedom, Chains Must Be Placed On The Minds Of The Masses
www.slonet.org/~ied/frthlz.html

Corporations that own our media
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...D=35.topic

The Myth of "Liberal Bias" in the Media
pub3.ezboard.com/fendingc...=164.topic

Who is really behind the Partnership For A Drug Free America
greenfield.fortunecity.co...rtner1.htm

Partnership for Drug Policy Facts & Alternatives...
www.cannabisnews.com/news...1783.shtml

Journalism and the Drug War
www.november.org/0524.html

The Myth of "Liberal Bias" in the Media
www.mdle.com/WrittenWord/...lhut32.htm


The Elkhorn Manefesto Part 1
www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn.html
Part 2
www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn2.html
Part 3
www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn3.html
Part 4
www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn4.html
Part 5
www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn5.html
Part 6
www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn6.html

The Anti-Pat Robertson/Christian Coalition Site
www.geocities.com/Capitol...rtson.html

Maybe Christians should Follow Jesus?

Just a thought...


And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. (Ezekiel 34:29)

Hemp Products
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"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." (Matt. 15:11)

Hempseed the most nutritionally complete food on the planet, legal or not.
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In the later times, some shall speak lies in hypocrisy commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine. (Paul: 1 Timothy 4:1-6)

Sacramental
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Cannabis food, fuel, fiber, medicine, hardrug&booze alternative.
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And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielding her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Rev. 22:1-2)

hemp applications
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Cannabis FARMaceuticals to heal the Nations
www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc...icals.html

(Jesus:) "Blessed are the peacemakers,for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are those persecuted for righteousness' sake: For theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:9-10)

(Jesus:) "Beware the scribes which desire to walk in long robes and the highest seats in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts; Which devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: They shall receive greater damnation." (Luke 20:46-47)

(Jesus:) 'Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethern, ye have done it unto me." (Matt. 25:40)

I lost my freedom and can't find it anywhere! Linx
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Free the Prisoners of WoD
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Peace, Love and Liberty or D.E.A.th!
DdC