The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ,… — 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
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
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it… — 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 Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“With respect to what are called denominations of religion, if every one is left to judge of its own religion, there is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. — 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
