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French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
Thomas Jefferson wrote and defended the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom to protect “the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan,” and he recorded that lawmakers rejected inserting “Jes...
The First Council of Nicaea did not set the Christian biblical canon; contemporary records of the council make no decision on which books belong in Scripture . The widespread myth that Nicaea or Const...
George Sale’s 1734 English translation of the Qur’an arrived at a crucial moment in Enlightenment Europe and became the dominant English-language access point to Islamic scripture for well over a cent...
Thomas Massie’s history of tweeting demonstrably false or misleading claims appears driven less by simple ignorance than by a mix of performative contrarianism, political signaling and opportunism: do...
The First Council of Nicaea did not formally fix the biblical canon, so it ; that claim is a persistent myth rooted in later medieval and Enlightenment retellings. Nicaea’s clear, documented legacies ...