Thomas Paine Quotes about Bible

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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Thomas Paine

Bible, Religious, Book

Thomas Paine, Thomas ERSKINE (Baron Erskine.) (1797). “A Letter to the Honourable T. Erskine [the Counsel for the Crown] on the prosecution of T. Williams, for publishing"The Age of Reason.".”, p.15

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

Thomas Paine

Bible, Religious, Faith Religion

Thomas Paine (1877). “The Age of Reason”, p.15, Lyle Stuart

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. 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

Bible, Believe, Religion

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.

Thomas Paine

Bible, Religious, Book

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

Thomas Paine

Bible, Stupid, May

Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.101, e-artnow

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice.

Thomas Paine

Bible, Ideas, Justice

Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.333

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

Bible, Lying, Book

Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.614, Simon and Schuster

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

Bible, Men, Stupidity

Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.82

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.

Thomas Paine

Bible, Ignorance, People

Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.364