"Religion is a history of wickedness that has……" — Thomas Paine

"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 everything that is cruel."

— Thomas Paine

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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of…
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders…
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion…
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective…

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