That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not
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It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person
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There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities
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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.
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy
But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried, should rise from the dead, and ascend into heaven
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
The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation
Calvinism is the belief (1) That there are three Gods (2) That good works, or the love of our neighbor are nothing (3) That faith is every thing, and the more incomprehensible the proposition, the more merit in its faith (4) That reason in religion
The adulterous connection between church and state