[PROCON]

I heard once, and maybe this is only folklore, that Ben Franklin used to cut out with a razor, Bible passages he didn't agree with.

It sounds like many are cutting out much of Romans 1.

[Cowman]

That was Jefferson. He wanted to remove what he considered “Magic” but wound up with what he called “The Gospel of Jesus the Christ”

Actually, I find Jefferson to be the most fascinating of the founders because, depending on the period of his life, he can be on all sides of an issue until he has fully examined it.

[BroJoeK]

PROCON: "I heard once, and maybe this is only folklore, that Ben Franklin used to cut out with a razor, Bible passages he didn't agree with."

You heard right, but it was Thomas Jefferson, not ol' Ben Franklin.
Some of our Founders were Deistic Christians, Masons and/or Unitarians, but they all understood the necessity for both religious freedom and good civic morals taught in church.

Info on Jefferson's Bible.

You can buy Jefferson's Bible here:

[Lacey]

This is good too.

http://www.caintv.com/a-detailed-explanation-of-why

[Gamecock]

No different than the modern day Jesus Seminar crowd.

They literally vote on which part of the Bible is true and which part is myth.

[left that other site]

I don’t know about Ben Franklin, but I read that one of Jefferson’s “achievements” was his own translation of Scripture that had the parts he didn’t like removed.

I am a BIG Jefferson fan...but I think that the particular act of doing that was intellectually dishonest.