From Whence That Filthy Mire of Error ?

"The manifestation of God is choked 

--by human superstition 

--and the error of the philosophers.

 

Hence arises that boundless filthy mire of error wherewith the whole
earth was filled and covered. 

For each man’s mind is like a labyrinth, so that it is no wonder that individual nations were drawn aside into various falsehoods; and not only this—but individual men, almost, had their own gods. 

 

Surely, just as waters boil up from a vast, full spring, 

so does an immense crowd of gods 

flow forth from the human mind, 

while each one, 

in wandering about with too much license, 

wrongly invents this or that about God himself.'"

John Calvin