"Christian theology is the study of nothing.” -- Thomas Paine, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

Thomas Paine was born on February 9, 1737 in Thetford, Norfolk, England.

He died June 8, 1809 (aged 72) in New York City, New York, U.S.

Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
― Thomas Paine

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
― Thomas Paine

It would be more consistent that we call the Bible the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
― Thomas Paine

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New 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.
― Thomas Paine

The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.
― Thomas Paine

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
― Thomas Paine

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.
― Thomas Paine

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.
― Thomas Paine