With obvious indignation, she replied, "I never said that — the Bible needs cutting".
Most of the Founding Fathers were deists, although not all of them were as skeptical as Jefferson, who crafted a custom copy of the Bible by cutting out everything but the words of Jesus.
The greater truth is that once you step outside the liberal havens of New York and Los Angeles, and into the "fly-over states", the Tea Party bible of cutting taxes and balancing budgets no longer sounds radical or extreme.
Ancient scripts often report large sized fruit (e.g., in the Bible, Numbers 13, 23 "… and cutting down a vine branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them…" [Hooke 1965]) and very high yields, but these might be mythical and not represent actual, standard productivity rates.
"It's also true that the Bible has passages that prohibit men from cutting their hair, and that forbid anyone from wearing mixed fiber clothing, or planting two different kinds of seed in their fields, or eating shellfish.
For every Jefferson, cutting out sections of the Bible he deemed superstitious, there were others like Samuel Osgood, the first postmaster general, who wrote a book in 1794 predicting that the Second Coming was imminent, after elaborate calculations linking bits of prophecy in the Bible with recent events.
In February 1804, Thomas Jefferson sat in the White House, cutting verses out of two Bibles and pasting them together into an abridged New Testament that cast Jesus as a rational ethicist.
Cuts to the food stamp program was hotly debated, with members quoting Bible verses to support keeping the food stamp programs at current levels or cutting it.
He cited new laws in Missouri cutting $96 million in food stamps, claiming that it was the latest so-called Bible belt state failing to take care of those in need.
The surviving boy is again saved by cutting off his finger, and the additional information is given that he had a Bible in his pocket.
