“Too many christians have been chargeable with… confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.”

— Joseph Priestley , book An History of the Corruptions of Christianity

General Conclusions, Part I : Containing Considerations addressed to Unbelievers and especially to Mr. Gibbon
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)

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