Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
--Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason"
(One of the key reasons I couldn't consider myself a Christian, because if there is a God, he would judge me by this sort of infidelity. To be faithful, I must be faithful to my conscience, and my conscience tells me that what I was taught was wrong.)
--Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason"
(One of the key reasons I couldn't consider myself a Christian, because if there is a God, he would judge me by this sort of infidelity. To be faithful, I must be faithful to my conscience, and my conscience tells me that what I was taught was wrong.)
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Date: 2004-11-30 10:30 pm (UTC)I believe.