John Adams

John Adams ~ Second U.S. President, Founding Father of the United States

Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1500 years.

The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

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.

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.

In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

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?