The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament
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Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived.... 'The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to the representative system, was once their toast, though it is now their overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them.'Thomas Paine
The notion of the Trinity of Gods has enfeebled the belief in one God. A multiplication of beliefs acts as a division of belief and in proportion as anything is divided it is weakened.
Thomas Paine
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
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the colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all men are, white or black.
Thomas Paine
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Thomas Paine
My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
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