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• As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the scheme of Christianity, greatly disfiguring and depraving it; I shall show, ... that it has no countenance whatever in reason, or the Scriptures; and, therefore, that the whole doctrine of atonement, with every modification of it, has been a departure from the primitive and genuine doctrine of Christianity.
  • On the conventional Christian notion of Jesus Christ's atonement for sins. Joseph Priestley: Selections from His Writings (1962) by Ira V. Brown, p. 289

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