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.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin.