Appropriate for OWS, and from Marx before Marxism and dogma: "Every individual must admit to himself that he has no precise idea about what ought to happen. However, this very defect turns to the advantage of the new movement, for it means that we do not anticipate the world with our dogmas but instead attempt to discover the new world through the critique of the old"..."The philosopher's role was like that of a priest: 'What the world needed above all is a confession, and nothing more than that. To obtain forgiveness for its sins, mankind need only to declare them for what they are."

Empire of Liberty by Gordon Wood 2009

"Many of the Revolutionary leaders were proto-Unitarians, denying miracles and the divinity of Jesus.  Even puritanical John Adams thought that the argument for Christ's divinity was an 'awful blashphemy' in this new enlightened age." 577

According to Jefferson, who expressed a hatred of organized religion unequaled among the Founders, "The Trinity was nothing but 'Abracadabra' and 'hocus-pocus...so incomprehensible to the human mind that no candid man can say he has any idea of it'"