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Tue Nov-16-04 02:27 PM
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He compared the story of the virgin birth to the Roman goddess Minerva springing out of her father's head (her father being Jupiter). He thought that some day they would be treated as similarly untrue.
I can dig up the quote if anyone is interested. It was in a letter he was writing to John Adams, who was a Unitarian (also not a Christian).
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