Is it a fact that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world, and how is it proved? If a God,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word… — 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… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, should be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books… — 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
“Though it is not a direct article of the christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the… — 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
“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
![“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime) is what I have no doubt of. In the first place, they were educated to believe it, and they would have believed anything else in the same manner . There are…” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef2/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_that-many-good-men-have-believed-this-st_2075778.jpg)
