It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason

What is it the Bible teaches us? — rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason

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.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason

All natural 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.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason