Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible p…

Thomas Jefferson
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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1964). The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson
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