The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for …

Thomas Jefferson
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.
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