Thomas Paine Quotes About Founding Fathers Religion
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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
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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, and monopolize power and profit.
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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
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What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.
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...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 wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
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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 story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.
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The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
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I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.
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It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
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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 filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.
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