The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies… — 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
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
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it… — 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
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
It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have… — 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
“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
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting… — 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
“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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