The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and… — 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
Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world,… — 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
The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses?… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of… — 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
“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity,… — 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
“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity,… — 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
“Some Christians pretend that Christianity was not established by the sword; but of what period of time do they speak? It was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can… — 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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