Thomas Paine
  • Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

  • Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

  • It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

  • 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.

  • There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.