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I Disbelieve All Holy Men And Holy Books.

Priests And Conjurors Are Of The Same Trade.

In The Following Pages I Offer Nothing More Than Simple Facts, Plain Arguments, And Common Sense; And Have No Other Preliminaries To Settle With The Reader, Than That He Will Divest Himself Of Prejudice And Repossession, And Suffer His Reason And Feelings To Determine For Themselves; And That He Will Put On, Or Rather That He Will Not Put Off, The True Character Of Man, And Generously Enlarge His View Beyond The Present Day.

I Detest The Bible As I Detest Everything That Is Cruel.

From Such Beginnings Of Governments, What Could Be Expected, But A Continual System Of War And Extortion?