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Also too, may I add a few more from my Revolutionary Hero, Thomas Paine:
“My mind is my own church.”
“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.”
“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.”
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.” (bears repeating)
“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.”
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there will never be any liberal science in the world.- John Adams, Founding Father and 2nd President of the United States
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of…
