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Freeway

2019-03-11 · 1,152 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Freeway — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy,
Freeway — pen and ink drawing

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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson (13 March 1789).

"You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our…

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