Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Altho' I Rarely Waste Time In Reading On Theological Subjects, As Mangled By Our Pseudo-Christians, Yet I Can Readily Suppose Basanistos May Be Amusing. Ridicule Is The Only Weapon Which Can Be Used Against Unintelligible Propositions. Ideas Must Be Distinct Before Reason Can Act Upon Them; And No Man Ever Had A Distinct Idea Of The Trinity. It Is Mere Abracadabra Of The Mountebanks Calling Themselves The Priests Of Jesus. If It Could Be Understood It Would Not Answer Their Purpose. Their Security Is In Their Faculty Of Shedding Darkness, Like The Scuttlefish, Thro' The Element In Which They Move, And Making It Impenetrable To The Eye Of A Pursuing Enemy, And There They Will Skulk.
[Letter To Francis Adrian Van Der Kemp On 30 July 1810 Denouncing The Christian Doctrine Of The Trinity]

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