"Whenever we read the obscene stories,
the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and
torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness,
with which more than half the Bible is filled,
it would be more consistent that we called it the word
of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of
wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind"
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason