Just One Hitch with Jefferson

Hitchens in his New York Times book review (go back to the original post) expresses general admiration for Thomas Jefferson. Hitchens seems especially enamored with T.J. taking a razor to the New Testament and literally castrating it of its miracles and supernatural narrative. What was left, according to Jefferson, was the most sublime moral teaching ever.

First things first, Jesus disavowed the "only a teacher" title. He was not only a teacher...instead He was and is God in human flesh....our prophet, priest, and king.

The second piece of my reply to the Jefferson's, Hitchens and their ilk, is that you like to harp on the inconsistencies of Christians to live up to a morality that you don't even believe is true. How odd!

The miracles back-up the morality. It is downright dishonest to write that you have great admiration for Jesus's moral teaching but then either disavow the miracles presented in the Bible or overlook that these supposed supernaturally-laden events are out-and-out fabrications. If only fabrications and lies, Jesus was a pretty bad teacher in every sense of the word because His students were so patently dishonest in telling the "Jesus" story.

Want to know how good a teacher is? Look at the students and what they have learned. Jesus's disciples learned how to lie like the best of them, Lucifer and Co, then Jesus ain't no Messiah. That is a corollary to Lewis's "Lunatic, Liar, or Lord"" argument.

While we are addressing hypocrisy, I find it so odious that Hitchens, a supposedly educated and urbane man, suppresses Jefferson's penning such words as "All Men Are Created Equal" while also being a slave owner. I have been to Monticello. While T.J. was upstairs drinking wine and reading books, his slaves carried on their backs the day-to-day operation of the household.

Choke on that irony. Equivocate all you want...your free-thinking hero was a deeply flawed man, whose best moral instincts directly were often in opposition to his actions in his own beautiful home of hypocrisy.

Jesus knew that men who called him Lord but who would act in a manner that would veto assertions of true faith. He knew what was in the heart of man...lies, hypocrisies, lusts, all sorts of evil-thoughts and desires. That is what He came to die for...He also knows who are truly His. Be assured that He is not fooled by our suppressions. Or, your silly and stupid arguments. The razor cuts both ways.