Title: Imagine if All Altheists Left America Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Aug 21, 2009 Author:jeebsy12 Post Date:2009-08-21 08:58:02 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:8926 Comments:73
If Thomas Paine had the advantage of learning more about the natural world he would be an atheist. Jefferson too. Neither were Christians. So I guess you believe both to be burning in hell? Thomas Paine was the Richard Dawkins of his day.
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. -- Thomas Paine
There is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superstition and falsehood. -- Thomas Paine
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing and admits of no conclusion. -- Thomas Paine
Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything. -- Thomas Paine
No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith. -- Thomas Paine,
What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith. -- Thomas Paine
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. -- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1793-5)
The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense. -- Thomas Paine
The Bible is a book that has been read more, and examined less, than any book that ever existed. -- Thomas Paine
Priests and conjurors are of the same trade. -- Thomas Paine
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon that the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. -- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)