...'Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God' (60). 4 The Society had Williams charged with seditious...

...When we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to...

...Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to...

...assassinations and massacres of the Terror, but instead condemned 'the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled'. Paine's professed object was to rescue true morality in an age which, he claimed, was witnessing the...

...Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to...

..."Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served...

...prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion. According to Paine, the Bible "is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." The stories it peddles deify Satan, legitimate the "moral lying" of priests, and expose their believers...

...of Reason, the pamphlet in which he ridiculed the fiction of an established church and remarked on "the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled." On the Continent the argument was understood as a brief for the Enlightenment, but the American congregation...

...which more than half of the Bible is filled," he wrote, "it would be more consistent to say that it was the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a...that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel." While The Age of Reason...

..."Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of the demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served...