Quotation by Thomas Paine

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809), Anglo-American political theorist, writer. The Rights of Man, pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792).

Shelley echoed this sentiment in his Address to the Irish People (1812): "All religions are good which make men good."
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