The biographer of Thomas Paine, the author of “The Age of Reason,” in order to excuse the blunder which Paine made in his criticisms on the Bible, says, that at “the time he wrote the first part of the work ‘he was without a Bible, neither could he procure one.’”
Thomas Paine's attacks on the Bible are excused by the fact he wrote them without ever owning a copy.
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