Rand Paul caught scrubbing transcripts from website after plagiarism charges

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23. Oh, I now have a face to go with your screen name! You handsome guy!

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Loved that Bible you wrote, too.

The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

...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.

http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/

...In 1895, the National Museum published Thomas Jefferson's Bible based on an edition provided by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Beginning in 1904 and lasting through the 1950's, every new member of Congress received a personal copy of the Jefferson Bible. The influence of Thomas Jefferson and the Bible version he drafted exists on both sides of the political spectrum today. Libertarians might draw on the independence of Jefferson's views from the oppressive theocratic monarchies of the time, while liberals can also observe the secularism apparent in his work...

http://aboutthomasjefferson.com/jefferson-bible/211/

Jefferson said on slavery, and it is reportedly written at the Jefferson Memorial:

God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Commerce between master and slave is despotism.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.