Quote by Thomas Paine
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the min

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. – Thomas Paine

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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. – Thomas Paine

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one. – Thomas Paine

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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. – Thomas Paine

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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. – William Ralph Inge

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of lifes wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. – Herman Hesse

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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? – Charles de Secondat

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