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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament reveale

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

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Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine

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Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us. – Thomas Paine

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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. – Thomas Paine

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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. – Charles Eastman

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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. – William Robertson Smith

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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. – George Santayana, Reason in Religion

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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. – Maimonides

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