I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind.


Letter to George Logan (12 November 1816). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 12, pp. 43.

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one...

I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one...

I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one...

I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one...