Bible Quotes by Thomas Paine
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Paine calls the Bible a human-made book that many treat as God’s word, but he calls that claim blasphemy. He points out that the stories include cruelty, murder, and strange rules that seem absurd. He also says the text often sounds like a foolish person talking about a higher power.
![“...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/274/thomas-paine-267_age-of-reason_it-would-be-more-consistent-that-we-call_2934720.png)
![“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended thing, revealed religion. They are the natural dictates of conscience, and the bonds by which society is held together, and without which it cannot exist ; and…” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/thomas-paine-267_bible_as-to-the-fragments-of-morality-that-are_964723.png)
