of course I never got an answer from you a few years back as to why Jefferson would say this either
"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 its benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind."
I wonder why he didn't say atheism was better for all that?
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