Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

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.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

Government is a necessary evil

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

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.