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  • John Adams on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism

    John Adams on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism

    The words of John Adams, second President of the United States (1797–1801) and the first Vice President (1789–97) on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism. “The substance and essence of Christianity, as I understand it, is eternal and unchangeable, and will bear examination forever, but it has been mixed with extraneous ingredients,…