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
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
The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were… — 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;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify… — 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
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
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
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
Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in… — 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
“Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the… — 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
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — 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 book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and… — 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 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
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
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by… — 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
“The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and… — 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
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
But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was… — 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… — 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 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
...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself.… — 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
“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
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 prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — 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
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
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
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
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
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“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
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
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
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“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… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
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![“The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion to supersede and expel the Jewish religion. And to find pretence and admission for these things…” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d84/thomas-paine-267_assassin_the-jews-have-made-him-yahweh-the-assass_2292873.jpg)
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