"We know nothing of what the ancient Gentile world was before the time of the Jews, whose practice has been to calumniate (to slander) and blacken the character of all other nations, and it is from the Jewish accounts that we have learned to call them heathens. But as far as we know to the contrary, they were a just and moral people, and not addicted, like the Jews, to cruelty and revenge. -From the Age of Reason
“The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion to supersede and expel the Jewish religion. And to find pretense and admission for these things, they must have supposed his power or his wisdom imperfect, or his will changeable; and the changeableness of the will is the imperfection of the judgement.” ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
See Thomas Paine's Wikipedia here. Find his books here. I guess we should put him on this list. See here for what the former Israeli minister said about anti-Semitism.
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