Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the Bible, as a man would go through a wood with an axe on his shoulder, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has happened, that all the answers that I have seen to the former part of 'The Age of Reason' have been… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
