What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe… — 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
The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called… — 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
The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His… — 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 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
“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
“Some Christians pretend that Christianity was not established by the sword; but of what period of time do they speak? It was… — 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
“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 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
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
The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with… — 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
