The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

Summary

This quote is by Thomas Jefferson and suggests that there may come a time when the belief in the miraculous birth of Jesus will be seen as fictional and dismissed in a similar way to the mythological stories about the birth of Minerva from Jupiter's brain. The quote implies that Jefferson himself views the story of Jesus' virgin birth as a myth or legend rather than a historical fact.