His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.
Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.10
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