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Matthew Tindal, born in 1657 and died on August 16, 1733, was a prominent English author, philosopher, and theologian. He is known for his research on deism and advocacy for religious tolerance.

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“That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another.”

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Book:Christianity as Old as the Creation

Source: Christianity as Old as the Creation

“I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.”

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Book:Christianity as Old as the Creation: Or, The Gospel, a Republication of the Religion of Nature. |. ...

Source: Christianity as Old as the Creation: Or, The Gospel, a Republication of the Religion of Nature. |. ...

“Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that "It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.”

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“Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.”

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“(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.”

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“God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason.”

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Born: 1657
Died: August 16, 1733
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Quotes: 6

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