When will we see a movie about Jesus based on the Jefferson Bible?

If a movie like that was made it sure would create a lot of controversy but more importantly it would educate the general public on the beliefs of our founders and how they valued reason, science, free debate and the search for truth over Revealed Religions. Not that it mattered if Jefferson was right or wrong on his assumptions of the Jesus story but that it would create a real debate in our country over what we were founded upon. It would also bring to light a more human Jesus who dedicated his life to the poor and to many very liberal causes.

Anyone want to help me promote this idea so that perhaps a producer might get on board? Anyone know any producers who would be interested in such a project? Perhaps we could produce it ourselves? I have no doubt such a controversial film would be a huge hit at the box office.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/jefferson.html

I'd probably buy the video.

In the book Jefferson and Religion by Eugene R. Sheridan, Jefferson’s beliefs are summed up in this way: “Jefferson’s demythologized version of Christianity, like so many other aspects of his life and thought, resists easy historical categories. It was anti-Trinitarian in its concept of God, Christian in its acceptance of the morality of Jesus, skeptical in its rejection of biblical revelation and church dogma, deistic in its conviction that the clergy had deliberately corrupted the pure doctrines of Jesus to serve their selfish purposes, rationalistic in its assumption that human reason was the only valid source of religious truth, and humanistic in its equation of religion with morality. In the end Jefferson probably best described his peculiarly eclectic faith when he observed of himself: “I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.”

If a branch of that denomination opens here in my freeper town, I might have to abandon the (very very very very very liberal) Methodists and join up.