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.
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.
The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.
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 […]
