Quote by Thomas Paine

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem, the seat of the occurrences which have furnished the very basis of theology."

Thomas Paine Philosophy
Revolutionary, Political Writer British-American 1737–1809

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