Thomas Paine: “It is inconsistent to pay the one, and accept the service of the other gratis.”

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

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…

I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all.

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.