One favorite example of spiritual outrageousness is found in the life of Thomas Jefferson.
Just to scratch the surface of Jefferson's complicated life, we can describe some of his qualities as the following:
- keen
- intellect
- philosopher
- architect
- designer
- statesman
- husband
- father
- amateur horticulturist
- archeologist
- writer
- musician
- Epicurean
- wine connoisseur
We can also see some darker shadows, a man whose brilliant idealism insisted that all people are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights from GOD, while throughout his lifetime he owned hundreds of other human beings.
It seems that something powerful within Jefferson demanded that he speak these great truths, even if he were doomed to a degree of hypocrisy and failure when it came to trying to implement them into his actual daily life.
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