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Bible Quotes by Thomas Paine
- ...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
- The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
- I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.
- And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.
- ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of…
- It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales…
- Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called…
- What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.
- It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
- The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the…
- But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even…
- The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
- The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.
- And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
- The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties…
- Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.
- We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed…
- There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea…
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
- As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions…
- It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses,…
- What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the…
- Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is…
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- It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only… — Albert Barnes
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams
- I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an… — Joe Barton
- The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress… — Brendan Behan
- The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. — Rob Bell
- Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. — William Blake
- My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for… — Elayne Boosler
- If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is… — Dan Brown