"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors."- Thomas Jefferson
"There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."- Thomas Jefferson
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."- Ben Franklin
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it"- John Adams
"The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession."- Abraham Lincoln
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."- James Madison
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