What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to… — 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
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I would give worlds, if I had them, that the Age of Reason had never been published. Oh, god, save me; for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — 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
“I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — 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 Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — 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 Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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