"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'"
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