I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain t…

Thomas Jefferson
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I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented.
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