The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the c…

Thomas Jefferson
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The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.463
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