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When faced with an actual example of knowledge, and you being unable to proceed in any intellectual way, you resort to the usual ractic of the despot, and try to take on the appearance of intelligence. And you fail each time.


Int eh letter you presume to quote from Jefferson, you reject the actual concept of what Jefferson was speaking of, and that was the Charlatan actions of the Christian ministers for which he had nothing but disdain. He actually wrote in his letter  to Van der Kemp in 1816:


"Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may be amusing. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. If it could be understood it would not answer their purpose. Their security is in their faculty of shedding darkness, like the scuttlefish, thro' the element in which they move, and making it impenetrable to the eye of a pursuing enemy, and there they will skulk."


He then followed this up in 1820 with yet another letter to Van der Kemp in which he said:


"The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practised by himself. Very soon after his death it became muffled up in mysteries, and has been ever since kept in concealment from the vulgar eye. To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."


Perhaps you should seek that education.


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