Diary Excerpt Highlights Adams View on Religion
Boston notes quote John Adams from age twenty in 1756 about religion asking where gospel precepts require ecclesiastical synods convocations councils decrees creeds confessions oaths subscriptions and other trumpery that burden religion in these days.
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