To the editor: How lucky for Oklahoma Supt. of Public Instruction Ryan Walters that there already exists a Bible that fulfills the acknowledged want to show its “historic significance all through this nation’s historical past.” (“Oklahoma amends request for Bibles that had matched Trump-promoted version,” Oct. 8)
It was accomplished round 1819 when the writer eliminated the unique’s “groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of issues unimaginable, of superstitions, and fanaticism and fabrications.” He left what he titled, “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,” and it’s extra generally generally known as the Jefferson Bible.
Together with the Declaration of Independence, it might represent a “twofer” by the identical writer who wished to take away the distractions and divisiveness of divinity and reveal the Bible’s useful ethical classes.
How lucky certainly, except Walters’ authentic motivation was to only be a shill for the $60 Trump Bible.
S.H. Kardener, Santa Monica