It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man, on the unity of man, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the… — 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
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but… — 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
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. — 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
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Those three means are Mystery, Miracle, and Prophecy. The first two are incompatible with true religion, and the third ought always to… — 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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