Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
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The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing it is founded on nothing it rests on no principles it proceeds by no authority it has no data it can demonstrate nothing and it admits of no conclusion.
Thomas Paine
My mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.
Thomas Paine
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas Paine
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
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