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kpete

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Sun Feb 19, 2012, 01:55 PM Feb 2012

Thomas Jefferson vs. GOP

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one . . . But this constitutes the craft, the power and the profit of the priests. Sweep away their gossamer fabrics of factitious religion, and they would catch no more flies. We should all then, like the Quakers, live without an order of priests, moralize for ourselves, follow the oracle of conscience, and say nothing about what no man can understand, nor therefore believe. - Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams (1813)


http://www.brunswickcounty.com/Thomas_Jefferson_and_the_Doctrine_of_the_Trinity-a-1150.html
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Thomas Jefferson vs. GOP (Original Post) kpete Feb 2012 OP
Here is more of that letter from Jefferson JDPriestly Feb 2012 #1

JDPriestly

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1. Here is more of that letter from Jefferson
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 02:54 PM
Feb 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=167255

I have a book of the correspondence between Jefferson and Adams.

This is fair use since the letter is printed and I assume was written in long paragraphs.

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