英国法学家、最具气魄自然神大笔。著有《基督教与创世般古老：或者自然宗教对天启之印》，彻底呼吁剥离教义一切迷信神迹，还原基督教至简质朴的宇宙理智公规。
An eighteenth-century English jurist and the most uncompromising voice of radical Deism. His *Christianity as Old as the Creation* (1730) was hailed across Europe as the 'Bible of Deism,' detonating a rationalist assault on orthodox theology that forced the church onto the defensive.
Tindal argued that true religion and the rational laws of nature are one and the same, equally ancient and coextensive. God established universal, immutable natural law at creation, accessible to all through reason. Christianity is not a supernatural revelation but a restatement of this primordial natural morality. Any doctrine that contradicts reason — miracles, mysteries, ecclesiastical privilege — is priestcraft and fraud, deserving only to be discarded. Reason alone is the sacred light of truth.
"True natural religion is coextensive with the laws of nature. Any so-called miracle that defies reason and science is nothing but priestly fraud, fabricated to intimidate the credulous. Logic is the sacred light of truth."
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Locke established rational principles for government but retained a cautious, accommodating tolerance for biblical miracles and supernatural revelation in his theological writings. Tindal stripped away all compromise, applying the rationalist blade to its limit: every miracle that cannot withstand scientific scrutiny must be excised without remainder.
In shaping your deepest convictions, do you preserve a measure of reverential mystery toward inherited traditions for the sake of harmony, or do you insist on purging every unscientific claim with uncompromising rational clarity (Tindal)?
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