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.
Same can be said about any religious thing, really, even about the concept of deity itself, regardless of what they believe in. I’m not religious myself but I tried to correct some wrong information about christian(catholic?) belief. We can be critical about things and try to be accurate.
– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Van der Kemp, 1816
Same can be said about any religious thing, really, even about the concept of deity itself, regardless of what they believe in. I’m not religious myself but I tried to correct some wrong information about christian(catholic?) belief. We can be critical about things and try to be accurate.