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The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.

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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
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It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of the Creator, as it is of Government to hold man in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support.
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To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Men should not petition for rights, but take them
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The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.
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Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
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We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.
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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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I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.
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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered and the easier repaired when disordered.
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