"The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible……" — Thomas Paine
"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 and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice."
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