Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, thr…

Thomas Jefferson
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Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.
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