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- Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating…
- Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live…
- The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles;…
- 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.
- The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or…
- It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a…
- Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to…
- The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder…
- 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…
- The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
- The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.
- If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.
- There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something…
- Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest…
- Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
- Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
- As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no…
- From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit…
- 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…
- 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…
- One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have…
- 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…
- The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind,…
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