Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

for debt, the beginning of debts glued to one's
back, the beginning of the continuous quarreling,
the beginning of suffering,... the Antichrist upon the
Earth, tiger of the villages, wildcat of the villages,
leech on the poor [American] Indian. But the day
will arrive when the tears of their eyes reach unto
God, and the justice of God comes down upon the
world in a single blow.... Brothers, little brothers,
sons of servants come to the world! When the
King comes and is recognized, the face of the Son
of God will be crowned. And the Bishop, which is
called the Holy Inquisition, will come before Saul
to beg concord with the Christians, so that
oppression will cease and misery will end.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794):
That manufacturer of quibbles, St Paul,... [wrote] a
collection of letters under the name of epistles....
Out of the matters contained in those books,... the
church has set up a system of religion very
contradictory to the character of the person whose
name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and
of revenue, in pretended imitation of a person
whose life was humility and poverty.
Red Jacket (Chief of the Iroquois Tribe in New
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