I received your friendly letter, for which I am obliged to you. It is three weeks ago today (Sunday, August fifteenth), that I was struck...

Thomas Paine Paris, May 12, 1797 In your letter of the twentieth of March, you give me several quotations from the Bible, which you call...

In the fifth chapter of Mark, we read a strange story of the devil getting into the swine after he had been turned out of a man, and as...

In addition to the judicious remarks in your twelfth number, on the absurd story of Noah's Flood, in Genesis vii, I send you the...

The New Testament contains twenty-seven books, of which four are called Gospels; one called the Acts of the Apostles; fourteen called the...

Archbishop Tillotson says: "The difference between the style of the Old and New Testament is so very remarkable, that one of the...

It has been customary to class history into three divisions, distinguished by the names of Sacred, Profane, and Ecclesiastical. By the...

The story of Cain and Abel is told in Genesis iv. Cain was the elder brother, and Abel the younger, and Cain killed Abel. The Egyptian...

The story of the tower of Babel is told in Genesis xi. It begins thus: "And the whole earth [it was but a very little part of it they...

RELIGION has two principal enemies, Fanaticism and Infidelity, or that which is called Atheism. The first requires to be combated by...

The preacher of the foregoing sermon speaks a great deal about infidelity, but does not define what he means by it. His harangue is a...

The bishop says, "the oldest book in the world is Genesis." This is mere assertion; he offers no proof of it, and I go to controvert it,...

Tune in your television to any of the Bible preaching stations clogging the air waves. You're bound to encounter, not only as Bono of U-2...

The Church tells us that the books of the Old and New Testament are divine revelation, and without this revelation we could not have true...

In the November 13, 1995 issue of Christianity Today, page 31, we read, "Questions about the authority of Scripture had been troubling...

Most Christian fundamentalists are fervent anti-Communists. But can the same be said about their god? Let us open our Bible to Acts 4:34...

This page has received a lot of attention from revealed religionists who tell me it is inaccurate. It seems they've looked up the Bible...

It has been reported in the mainstream media recently that people are Biblically illiterate. A case is being made to offer Bible studies...

I used to be a devout Christian and an Eastern Orthodox Christian priest, and, as such, I was convinced that every assertion in the Bible...

While Judaism was never a proselytizing religion, contenting itself with born adherents (and as Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason,...