Religion
March 4, 2007 – 1:46 amAs to myself, my religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ, all have a different set. The former instructs us how to live well and worthily in society; the latter are made to interest our minds in the support of the teachers who inculcate them. Hence, for one sermon on a moral subject, you hear ten on the dogmas of the sect. However, religion is not the subject for you and me; neither of us know the religious opinions of the other; that is a matter between our maker and ourselves.
Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, Washington, January 21, 1809.
Booga booga booga boo! I’m an Athiest!