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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 we have of moral justice


Thomas Paine

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THOMAS PAINE The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapte...
THOMAS PAINE Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews...
THOMAS PAINE It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests an...
THOMAS PAINE People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in ...
THOMAS PAINE He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine,
he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays f...
THOMAS PAINE Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
THOMAS PAINE It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-h...
THOMAS PAINE [The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't ...
THOMAS PAINE Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Ex...
THOMAS PAINE Give me liberty, or give me death.
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