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“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

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Book:Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication
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“The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.”

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Book:The Age of Reason, etc
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“The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.”

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Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State
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“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings
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“I have sworn upon the altar of god.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson
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“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God”

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Book:The Essential Jefferson
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“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?”

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Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
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“The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.”

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Author:John Adams
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“The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?”

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Book:The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
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“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!”

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Author:John Adams
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“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
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“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

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Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
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“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.”

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Book:Selected Writings of James Madison
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“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”

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Book:The Portable Nietzsche
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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

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Book:The God Delusion
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“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

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Book:Ideas and Opinions
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“Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings
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“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

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Author:John Adams
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