English - Writer | January 29, 1737 - June 8, 1809
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
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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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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.
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