“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
“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 would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book. — 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
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
“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
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
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
Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“He that is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation… — 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
“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
“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
