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Paine was a devout Deist, and slammed Christianity on many occasions.
Paine was a devout Deist, and slammed Christianity on many occasions.
==Quotes==
==Quotes==
* "It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes." <ref>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_paine.html</ref>
* "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." from ''The Crisis'' (1776)
* "Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."<ref>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_paine.html</ref>
* "These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." from ''The American Crisis'' (1776)
* "Human nature is not of itself vicious."<ref>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_paine.html</ref>
*"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." from '' The American Crisis'' (1776)
* "Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.<ref>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_paine.html</ref>
* "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (1795)<ref>Paine, "Dissertation on First Principles of Government," ''The Writings of Thomas Paine,'' ed. Moncure D. Conway, vol. 3, p. 277 (1895).</ref>
* "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. <ref>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_paine.html</ref>
*"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not." (1792)<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=a5YIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PA12&dq=paine+%22any+people+are+not+fit+for+freedom%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1923&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES ''Rights of Man'' online]</ref>
* "Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities."<ref>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_paine.html</ref>
* "Those words, “temperate and moderate,” are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice."<ref> Paine, "Letter to the addressers on the late proclamation against seditious writings." in ''The Writings of Thomas Paine,'' ed. Moncure D. Conway, vol. 3, pp. 94–95 </ref>(1895).
* “The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy."<ref>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_paine.html</ref>
* "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case." (1795)<ref> Paine, "Dissertation on First Principles of Government," in ''The Writings of Thomas Paine,'' ed. Moncure D. Conway, vol. 3, p. 267 (1895). </ref>
* “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” December 23, 1776
==Works==
==Works==