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Superstition Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
- We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
- There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and…
- I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
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- Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. — Edmund Burke
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- All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach
- I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the… — Unknown Author