Irish freethinker and deist who argued in Christianity not Mysterious that genuine Christianity contains nothing contrary to reason, effectively reducing revealed religion to natural religion.
Christian revelation cannot require belief in what is above or against reason; the Scriptures when properly interpreted are entirely compatible with reason; supernatural mysteries are priestly impositions — founding English Deism's critical tradition.
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