I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. — 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
Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted… — 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
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — 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
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
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — 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
