We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Thomas PaineThe declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
Thomas PaineThe Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view, and places the Christian devil above him. It is he, according to the absurd story in Genesis, that outwits the Creator in the Garden Eden, and steals from Him His favorite creature, man, and at last obliges Him to beget a son, and put that son to death, to get man back again; and this the priests of the Christian religion call redemption.
Thomas Paine