"If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it."
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Lysander Spooner in: William O. Reichert Partisans of Freedom: A Study in American Anarchism, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1976, p. 118
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