--- title: "7 Credulity Quotes By Thomas Paine" description: "7 Credulity quotes by Thomas Paine. Plus more from Thomas Paine and more Credulity sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-wit_20000.png" --- > [One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-with-such-gross-and-vulgar/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-wit_20000.png) > [The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-new-testament-rests-itself-for-credulity-and-testimony-on-what/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73e/thomas-paine-267_christ_the-new-testament-rests-itself-for-credu_293181.png) > [“When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/when-also-i-am-told-that-a-woman-called-the-virgin-mary-said-or-gave/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/thomas-paine-267_angel_when-also-i-am-told-that-a-woman-called_926413.png) > [The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-story-of-jesus-christ-appearing-after-he-was-dead-is-the-story-of/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb3/thomas-paine-267_apparition_the-story-of-jesus-christ-appearing-afte_1213584.png) > [ “That many good men have believed this strange fable \[Christianity\], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/that-many-good-men-have-believed-this-strange-fable-christianity-and/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_that-many-good-men-have-believed-this-st_2075778.jpg) > [“The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-story-of-the-angel-announcing-what-the-church-calls-the/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2b/thomas-paine-267_angel_the-story-of-the-angel-announcing-what-t_2231567.png) > [“I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/i-have-spoken-of-jonah-and-of-the-story-of-him-and-the-whale-a-fit/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfc/thomas-paine-267_credulity_i-have-spoken-of-jonah-and-of-the-story_2648992.png) ## Other authors on Credulity ## More by Thomas Paine > [“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/no-man-is-prejudiced-in-favour-of-a-thing-knowing-it-to-be-wrong-he/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-laws-of-every-country-must-be-analogous-to-some-common-principle/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-book-called-the-bible-has-been-voted-by-men-and-decreed-by-human/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/to-argue-with-a-person-who-has-renounced-the-use-of-reason-is-like/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-with-such-gross-and-vulgar/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/commerce-diminishes-the-spirit-both-of-patriotism-and-military-defence/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/what-is-it-the-bible-teaches-us-raping-cruelty-and-murder-what-is-it/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/those-who-expect-to-reap-the-blessings-of-freedom-must-like-men/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/it-has-been-the-practice-of-all-christian-commentators-on-the-bible/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/but-there-are-times-when-men-have-serious-thoughts-and-it-is-at-such/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Wisdom is not the purchase of a day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/wisdom-is-not-the-purchase-of-a-day/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/our-citizenship-in-the-united-states-is-our-national-character-our/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/suspicion-is-the-companion-of-mean-souls-and-the-bane-of-all-good/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/to-pass-from-the-extremes-of-danger-to-safety-from-the-tumult-of-war/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/what-more-does-man-want-to-know-than-that-the-hand-or-power-that-made/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/credulity/thomas-paine/#itemlist", "name": "7 Credulity Quotes By Thomas Paine", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Paine" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-with-such-gross-and-vulgar/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-wit_20000.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-wit_20000.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-wit_20000.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could…” — Thomas Paine", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Paine" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-new-testament-rests-itself-for-credulity-and-testimony-on-what/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73e/thomas-paine-267_christ_the-new-testament-rests-itself-for-credu_293181.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73e/thomas-paine-267_christ_the-new-testament-rests-itself-for-credu_293181.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73e/thomas-paine-267_christ_the-new-testament-rests-itself-for-credu_293181.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old…” — Thomas Paine", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, Joseph, said that an angel told him so, I have a right to believe them or not: such a circumstance required a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it: but we have not even this; for neither Joseph nor Mary wrote any such matter themselves. 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The former says the angel, appeared to Joseph; the latter says, it was to Mary; but either Joseph or Mary was the worst evidence that could have been thought of; for it was others that should have testified for them, and not they for themselves. Were any girl that is now with child to say, and even to swear it, that she was gotten with child by a ghost, and that an angel told her so, would she be believed? Certainly she would not. Why then are we to believe the same thing of another girl whom we never saw, told by nobody knows who, nor when, nor where ? 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