Matthew Tindal

Matthew Tindal (1657 – 16 August 1733) was an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time.

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    He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
    —Bible: New Testament Matthew 5:45.

    I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.
    —Matthew Tindal (1653–1733)