As there can be but one god conceived of under our proposition, the question arises how so many can be held up before the Christian world, and each claimed to be “the only true god.” In the solution of this will be found the chief burden which ignorance and superstition use to load the mind with their absurdities.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “As there can be but one god conceived of under our proposition, the question arises how so many can be held up before…”
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Woodhull questions the existence of multiple gods in Christianity, linking it to ignorance and superstition.
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