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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

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The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration...more

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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more t...more

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Though it is not a direct article of the christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the habitable creation, yet it is so worked ...more

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What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe that the Almighty committed debauche...more

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I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much worse books than I had conceived. If I have e...more

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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral ju...more

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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral ju...more

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When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her...more

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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more...more

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It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on the world as a...more

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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it cons...more

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The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was the wretch that first began...more

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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this...more