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
“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 declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral… — 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
“I believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist of doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying 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
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“for as we are never in a proper condition of doing justice to others, while we continue under the influence of some… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it… — 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 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
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — 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
![“Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory…” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6a6/thomas-paine-267_alibi_now-if-the-writers-of-these-four-books-g_888540.jpg)
