Thomas Paine: “It is a pacific system, operating to cordialise mankind, by rendering nations, as well as individuals, useful to each…”

But as religion is very improperly made a political machine, and the reality of it is thereby destroyed, I will conclude this work with stating in what light religion appears to me.

It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.

I have no idea, considering the reforms which are now passing and spreading throughout Europe, that England will permit herself to be the last; and where the occasion and the opportunity quietly offer, it is better than to wait for a…

As to what are called national religions, we may, with as much propriety, talk of national Gods.