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• The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
  -- Thomas Paine, "Age of Reaso...
• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Thomas Paine
• My mind is my own church. -- Thomas Paine
• What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder.
  What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith....
• Picard: "I have learned that it is useless to argue with you once your mind is set.
  Spock: "Not at all, Captain. I have found our arguments quite useful....
• A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. -- Thomas Paine
• Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. -- Thomas Paine
• Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucherie
  he cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God....