To the editor: How lucky for Oklahoma Supt. of Public Instruction Ryan Walters that there already exists a Bible that fulfills the said want to show its “historic significance all through this nation’s historical past.” (“Oklahoma amends request for Bibles that had matched Trump-promoted model,” 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 could 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, until Walters’ authentic motivation was to simply be a shill for the $60 Trump Bible.
S.H. Kardener, Santa Monica
