As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.
Thomas Paine Quotes
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy.
If the prosecution cannot prove the Bible to be the word of God, the charge of blasphemy is visionary and groundless.
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.
Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.
Whoever will take the trouble of reading the book ascribed to Isaiah, will find it one of the most wild and disorderly compositions ever put together; it has neither beginning, middle, nor end; and, except for a short historical part, and a few sketches of history in the first two or three chapters, is one […]
Isaiah is, upon the whole, a wild, disorderly writer, preserving in general no clear chain of perception in the arrangement of his ideas, and consequently producing no defined conclusions from them. It is the wildness of his style, the confusion of his ideas, and the ranting metaphors he employs, that have afforded so many opportunities […]
Now, Sir, it is impossible for serious men, to whom God has given the divine gift of reason, and who employs that reason to reverence and adore the God that gave it, it is I say, impossible for such a man to put confidence in a book that abounds with fable and falsehood as the […]
