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I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.

Matthew Tindal

Matthew Tindal

Matthew Tindal

Born: 1657

Died: August 16, 1733 (aged 76)

Bio: Matthew Tindal was an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time.

Known for:

Christianity as old as the creation (1730)
Rights of the Christian Church Asserted

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