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Diversity of thought.. John Adams:
John Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, co-author of the United States Constitution and 2nd President of the United States was a Unitarian.
"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity."
"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation.
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been
blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the
most bloody religion that ever existed?" - John Adams, {letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816]
"This is my religion . . . joy and exaltation in my own existence . . . so
go ahead and snarl . . . bite . . . howl, you Calvinistic divines and all
you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian." - John Adams, in _Toward the Mystery
"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of
the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved--the Cross.
Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!" - John Adams, [letter to Thomas Jefferson]
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