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... context. To wit: • Thomas Jefferson believed so strongly in freedom of religious expression that he re-wrote the New Testament beginning in 1803 (while he was actively president). Imagine the whining of both the conservatives and the�...

... context, that which goes with the text. The context surrounds the text, provides the circumstances or situation for a text, may precede or follow the text, making its meaning more precise. Here, our analogy with chili falls apart, as�...

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... context. If Alice Walker's/Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple" had included an ordinary black man or two — you know, the sort of neighbor who plays catch with his boy or dandles his baby on his knee — it might not have divided black�...