![From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.](/assets/img/quote-photos/from-these-christians-who-came-to-avalon-to-escape-the-bigotry-of-their-own-kin.jpg)
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