AD 1700 to 1800

Even granting the rationalists’ definition of God as the unification of all perfections, I am inclined to side with Spinoza’s anti-“pure possibles” argument. The question of the “best possible world” seems to be a moot one. There simply is a world and there seems no reason to imagine that it could have been any different. Furthermore, Leibnizian Optimism seems to have undesirable consequences in practical life, namely encouraging passivity. For, if we believe that “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds,” why attempt to change anything?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) Was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history. Even the eighteenth-century French atheist and materialist Denis Diderot, whose views were very often at odds with those of Leibniz, could not help being awed by his achievement, writing in his entry on Leibniz in theEncyclopedia, “Perhaps never has a man read as much, studied as much, meditated more, and written more than Leibniz…            Stanford.edu

Pantheisticon: or, the Form Of Celebrating the Socratic-Society. 
Divided into Three Parts. 
Which Contain, 
I. The Morals and Axioms of the Pantheists; or the Brotherhood. 
II. Their Deity and Philosophy. 
III. Their Liberty, and a Law, neither deceiving, nor to be deceived. 
To which is prefix'd a Discourse upon the Antient and Modern Societies of the Learned, as also upon the Infinite and Eternal Universe. And subjoined, a short dissertation upon a Two-fold Philosophy of the Pantheists, that is to be followed; together with an Idea of the best and most accomplished Man. 

Shakespeare probably began his education at the age of six or seven at the Stratford grammar school, which is still standing only a short distance from his house on Henley Street and is in the care of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Although we have no record of Shakespeare attending the school, due to the official position held by John Shakespeare it seems likely that he would have decided to educate young William at the school which was under the care of Stratford's governing body.

In Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, Kant discusses the concept of radical evil. The German word “radikal” derives from the Latin word “rādīx,” which means “root” (“Wurzel”), “origin” (“Ursprung”), and “source” (“Quelle”). Therefore, when Kant explains the nature of radical evil, he also tries to enquire into “the origin of moral evil”. Kant observes that “the source of evil . . . can lie only in a rule made by the will for the use of its freedom, that is, in a maxim”. In Critique of Practical Reason, Kant makes a similar statement which echoes this observation. He writes that “the concept of good and evil must not be determined before the moral law . . . but only . . . after it and by means of it” . Therefore, in order to grasp the concept of evil, one has to understand the struggle in “a pathologically affected” human will, namely, the “conflict of maxims with the practical laws cognized by himself”

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing

By 1774, Ann Lee and some eight of her followers had emigrated to America, settling in New York "When confronted about a female’s right to preach, she responded that “all the children, both male and female, must be subject to their parents; and the woman, being second, must be subject to her husband, who is the first; but when the man is gone, the right of government belongs to the woman:

So is the family of Christ.” the group reached maximum size of about 6,000 full members in 1840, Shakers codified their rules for the first time as the Millennial Laws of 1821.

Nowhere is this more obvious, Nietzsche insists, than with the invention of the idea of hell. For hell is a fantasy of the weak that enables them to imagine compensatory revenge against the strong.

The life and times of  Jefferson are not the subject of this short biography, rather his understanding of Jesus Christ and his Bible.  It would appear that to this website the person and beliefs of Thomas Jefferson are the most akin.

In our favor he omitted the old testament, and removed miracles from the bible he wrote. 

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