"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
Thomas Paine:
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we call 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; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."
Quoting Thomas Paine.
I would expect no less from an evo.....
Jefferson was wrong, as were so many others who predicted and longed for the end of Christianity.
Paine, in his evo-like hatred of the Bible, totally misses that the Bible deals a lot with historical things and does not gloss them over. It deals with reality and what people really did. It doesn’t mean, however, that God condoned “the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness”.
The Pharisees also accused Jesus of being demonic. Nothing new under the sun.