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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act


Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.

— Thomas Jefferson, US president

Letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 30 July 1816

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