Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — 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
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — 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
“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 Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The… — 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
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The… — 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
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word… — 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
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the… — 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
Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the… — 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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