“The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all.” FirstsMatterFormChurchPrayerArgumentEnglandCatholicThis DayDeniedSermonsSequenceProtestantsNew EnglandTouch MePageantry Author:Mary Catherwood
“Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the Catholic church, from the Council of Nicea, and long before, to this day.” LongChristianReligionChurchAtheismSucceedMiracleCatholicAncientWaveGreekThis DayCouncilCatholic ChurchHebrewAtheisticFactions Book:Ye Will Say I Am No Christian Source: Ye Will Say I Am No Christian