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i appericate you taking your time to ponder into this journal. Today i will go into how religion itself conformed into what it is today. From the dawn of mankind nomads even believed of a higher being which brought it animals to kill and feast on, make rain and shelters for them to find confort in.. But as society adavnced so do reglious beliefs.. now that i have breifed you i will share some quotes from thomas Jefferson. Question with boldness the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear of life that he has upstold upon us. i will leave you for now with a letter of thomas jefferson he to was a atheist.
1787 letter to his nephew
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." Unknown

"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." Unknown

"To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But a heresy it certainly is. Jesus told us indeed that 'God is a spirit,' but he has not defined what a spirit is, nor said that it is not matter. And the ancient fathers generally, if not universally, held it to be matter: light and thin indeed, an etherial gas; but still matter." letter to John Adams, August 15, 1820

"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites." Notes on Virginia

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes"

As you can see from his letter he himself like me wondered why man down graded himself to such nonsense... But for relgious displeasure i shall go more in depth now about christainty. wahmbulance soon wahmbulance (in getting ahead of myself)

Now as you can see others be4 me have thought above others and openly expressed themselves. What do you think about that.. ill let u ponder on it and express your feelings about my beliefs openly in your post only then wil i be able to aknowledge you.