That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the moral doctrines of philosophers, and partly of poetical fictions and extravagant chimeras: That he ridiculed the holy scriptures, calling the Old Testament Ezra's fables, in profane allusion to Esop's Fables; That he railed on Christ, saying, he had learned magick in Egypt, which enabled him to perform those pranks which were called miracles: That he called the New Testament the history of the imposter Christ; That he said Moses was the better artist and the better politician; and he preferred Muhammad to Christ: That the Holy Scriptures were stuffed with such madness, nonsense, and contradictions, that he admired the stupidity of the world in being so long deluded by them: That he rejected the mystery of the Trinity as unworthy of refutation; and scoffed at the incarnation of Christ.〔(Proceedings against Thomas Aikenhead for Blasphemy ) – Text of indictment at Google Books from T. B. Howell (editor): ''A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to 1783, with notes and other illustrations'', Volume 13, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816〕