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“He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong”
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“The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know”
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“This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves”
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“My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd”
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“If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce”
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“If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish”
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“Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.”
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“Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition”
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“Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt”
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“My principal objections to orthodox religion are two - slavery here and hell hereafter”
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“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.”
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