Such is the deplorable condition of our age, that a man dares not openly and directly own what he thinks of divine matters, though it be never so tru… - John Toland

I hope to make it appear, that the use of reason in religion is not so dangerous as commonly represented.

If we make a just computation, and take in the primitive martyrs with the Prophets and Apostles themselves, the professed defenders of Truth, only for Truth's sake, will be found to be a small handful with respect to the numerous partisans of error.

Not only a few men, but oftentimes whole societies, whilst they consider things but very superficially, set such a value upon certain sounds, as if they were the real essence of all religion. ... And yet, as I hinted now, they either signify nothing, or have been invented by some leading men to make plain things obscure.