Some Quotes for Today... On Calvin, Calvinism, Christianity

"I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshiped a false god, he did. The being described in his 5. points is not the God whom you and I acknowledge and adore, the Creator and benevolent governor of the world; but a daemon of malignant spirit."
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"It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all, then to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin."
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"Indeed I think that every Christian sect gives a great handle to Athiesim by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god"


Jefferson To Adams
Monticello, April 11. 23. (1823)