“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
-Thomas Paine, The Forester’s Letters, Letter III—’To Cato’, Pennsylvania Journal (24 April 1776).
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Thomas Paine: “Belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man”
“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
–Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1852 edition), p.205.
Thomas Paine on Reason
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
-Thomas Paine, The Crisis No. V, March 21, 1778