It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the…

Thomas Paine
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It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene. ✨ Thomas Paine (1875). The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, p.154
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