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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

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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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It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Tes...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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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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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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I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produ...more

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It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

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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

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The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murdere...more

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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 forger...more