Religion Quotes by Thomas Paine

Science is the true theology.

— Thomas Paine

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

— Thomas Paine

Prophesying is lying professionally.

— Thomas Paine

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

— Thomas Paine

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

— Thomas Paine

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

— Thomas Paine

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

— Thomas Paine

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

— Thomas Paine

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

— Thomas Paine

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

— Thomas Paine

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

— Thomas Paine

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

— Thomas Paine

If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.

— Thomas Paine

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

— Thomas Paine

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of…

— Thomas Paine

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the…

— Thomas Paine

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the…

— Thomas Paine

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in…

— Thomas Paine

The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but…

— Thomas Paine

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

— Thomas Paine

“if all with doubts about the factual basis of their religion will but commit to their resolution through direct and unfettered inquiry,…

— Thomas Paine

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New…

— Thomas Paine

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…

— Thomas Paine

Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to…

— Thomas Paine

“With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ,…

— Thomas Paine

The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied…

— Thomas Paine

“Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the…

— Thomas Paine

The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in…

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The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view,…

— Thomas Paine

From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His…

— Thomas Paine

The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has…

— Thomas Paine

The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,…

— Thomas Paine

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,…

— Thomas Paine

“Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, should be…

— Thomas Paine

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that…

— Thomas Paine

As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial…

— Thomas Paine

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they…

— Thomas Paine

“The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapter of Luke there is…

— Thomas Paine

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

— Thomas Paine

The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act

— Thomas Paine