"The Age of Reason" Quotes

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

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.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

A thousand years hence, the telephone and the automobile, the motion-picture and the radio will have come and gone, and with them all the toiling of men.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.