Atheism Quotes by Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

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

— Thomas Paine

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

— Thomas Paine

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

— Thomas Paine

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

— Thomas Paine

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is…

— 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

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one…

— Thomas Paine

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…

— Thomas Paine

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the…

— Thomas Paine

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell…

— Thomas Paine

The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by…

— Thomas Paine

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin…

— Thomas Paine

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it…

— Thomas Paine

I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,…

— Thomas Paine

The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and…

— Thomas Paine

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have…

— Thomas Paine

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have…

— Thomas Paine

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to…

— Thomas Paine

The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom…

— 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

The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that…

— Thomas Paine

“It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh…

— Thomas Paine