Bill Maher-Tea Party. The Founding Fathers would have hated your guts, Teabagger mob.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paztsj...
more on the original Judeoteabaggers who destroyed Civilization http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paztsj...
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Thomas Paine

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas Paine

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Thomas Paine

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Thomas Paine

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Thomas Paine

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine

My mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine


Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Thomas Paine
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And finally, New Rule, now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are so antithetical to theirs. I'm talking, of course, about the Founding Fathers, who the teabaggers believe are just like them, but aren't. One is a group of exclusively white men who live in a bygone century, have bad teeth, and think of blacks as 3/5s of a person. And the other are the Founding Fathers!
Now I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing. While you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would've hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them! They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris, and thought the Bible was mostly bullshit. And yet, here is a popular painting in wingnut America.
Yes, that's Jesus with the Founding Fathers behind him, presenting the Constitution to America. Either that, or it's a settlement offer for that boy after he sued the rectory.
Super-religious guy Glenn Beck likes to play dress-up as Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine, an atheist who said churches were "human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind". John Adams said, "this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it".* Which is not to say the Founders didn't have a moral code. Of course they did. They just didn't get it from the Bible. Well, except for the part about it's cool to own slaves. It's in there, folks, I didn't make it up.
The Founders disagreed amongst themselves about that, and most issues. But the one thing they never argued about was that political power must stay in the hands of the smartest people, and out of the hands of the dumbest loudmouths slowing down the checkout line at Home Depot.
And yet, Sarah Palin once said of Obama, "we need a Commander-in-Chief, not a professor of law standing at a lectern". How gay is that! Well, I hate to break it to you, but:
Thomas Jefferson, lawyer.
Alexander Hamilton, Constitutional lawyer.
James Madison, lawyer.
John Adams, Constitutional lawyer.
They were not the common man of their day. Ben Franklin studied scientific phenomena like lightning and the aurora borealis, and were he alive today, he could probably explain to Bill O'Reilly why the tides go in and out.
James Madison was fluent in Greek and Latin, and could translate Virgil and Cicero. John Boehner can't translate Fareed Zakaria. And Thomas Jefferson was an astronomer and a physicist who founded the University of Virginia, played the violin, and spoke six languages. Or as Palin would say, "all of them".

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[ZeusTilemaxos]

For all of you who think that the Torah was ancient wisdom. Google 'The Maxims of Delphi" and keep in mind that most of these maxims were written in stone at Delphi, 100s of Years before ANY of the old testament was written. The "god" refereed to is the God of light, and the god of the Temple, Apollo.

[ZeusTilemaxos]

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Thomas Paine

In Case anyone is still wondering about Thomas Paine being a "Judeo Deist"

[james jones]

OBAMA 2012

[james jones]

TEABAGGERS ARE PRETTY STUPID I WILL HAVE TO GIVE HIM THAT

[TheFlameoftheWest]

Thomas Paine was a Deist not a Atheist.

[Vivisector King]

Paine was an atheist insofar as he rejected religions. He was indeed a Deist, as he seemed to believe in a "creator-god" deity. Other than this, I haven't read enough.

[james jones]

fuck republicans

[Josh hollister]

thats why this country is going to shit.

RON PAUL 2012!

[ZeusTilemaxos]

Yes but those commandments ONLY applied towards Jews. The rest of Humanity was supposed to be killed, enslaved or robbed. Hence, Thomas Paines position. Read a bit more carefully. Your priest wont tell you those things in church, because he wants you to keep going so you can give him your money.

[bolatluver29]

satan wrote the bible?!?! thats hilarious.. "thou shall not kill, not steal, not commit adultery, not covet thy neighbor.. treat others the way you want to be treated".. WOW this is truly the work of the devil LOL @ you

[bolatluver29]

thomas paine founded the church of theophilanthropy that invoked the existence god and charitible works inspired teachings of the principality of the bible, and taught with philosophers and not priest or ministers but was deemed heresy only by the catholic church bc it based in a catholic-ruled country being France

and the only person to say he was an atheist, other bill maheron, was theodore roosevelt