“The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages, events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatised from them.”
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe
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Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe
