I found these quotes from Thomas Jefferson most interesting.
"The
Presbyterian clergy are loudest, the most intolerant of all sects, the most
tyrannical and ambitious; ready at the word of the lawgiver, if such a word
could be now obtained, to put the torch to the pile, and to rekindle in this
virgin hemisphere, the flames in which their oracle Calvin consumed the poor
Servetus, because he could not find in his Euclid the proposition which has
demonstrated that three are one and one is three, nor subscribe to that of
Calvin, that magistrates have a right to exterminate all heretics to
Calvinistic Creed. They want to re-establish, by law, that holy inquisition,
which they can only infuse into public opinion."
"When
we shall have done away with the incomprehensible jargon of the Trinitarian
arithmetic, that three are one, and one is three; when we shall have knocked
down the artificial scaffolding, reared to mask from view the simple structure
of Jesus; when, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been
taught since his day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he
inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciplines."
In the first quote he is speaking of Michael Servetus. Calvin was involved in his extermination. Here are some quotes relating to the incident.
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