[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the a…

Thomas Jefferson
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[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1964). The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson
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[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1964). The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson

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