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What does “religion, such as nature taught” mean?
“Religion, such as nature taught,/ With all divine perfection suits;/ Had all mankind this system sought/ Sophists would cease their vain disputes,/ And from this source would nations know./ All that can make their heavan below.” (Freneau, On Religion of Nature)
its a relative analogy to the fall from grace. adam and eve eating from the tree of good and evil and how humans are essentially a stand alone and separate entity from nature itself. this nature is a connection with god.
sophists just use our essentially limited language (look into godel’s incompleteness theorem on systems such as math and language) and try to extrapolate to find universal truths, which they can’t as universal truths usually end in some kind of paradox.
hope this helps