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Stories Quotes by Thomas Paine
- 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…
- 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…
- It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend.…
- 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…
- Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has…
- The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision,…
- 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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