In addition, he makes claim to the fact that the only witnesses to this supernatural reality are humans who were themselves representative of the Jewish priests working in collusion with the Roman church (which is entirely unsupported by any evidence of history) that supposedly put Christ to death. According to The Bible, they were so frightened of his power that they brought him to the attention of the empire, who had him put to death for threatening the sanctity of their authority. .
He argues convincingly also that the religion itself (as distilled from The Bible) is a copy of old Greek mythologies, the war in heaven is equivalent to the war against Jupiter. And in the end, the Christians decided to give full power to Satan, whom they promised all of creation. He contrasts this to the fact that they sacrifice Jesus Christ himself simply because Eve had eaten an apple (and in fact in his conclusion states how they make Jesus kill himself, a Jew killing a Jew in favor of the Roman Empire). Paine continues to have a problem with the superstitious nature of the stories combined with the fact that the power of the so-called prophets is constantly being put in terms of evil. In this regard, he cites the case of Saul, where Saul runs into a company of prophets playing a tabret, a pipe, and a harp. They prophesize together, but at the end of this tale, it appears afterwards, that Saul prophesized badly through an evil spirit from God. Obviously, Paine finds this entire line of reasoning inexplicable, that God's prophet would be evil and working through God's evil spirit. Since to Paine, God contains no evil within him.
The problems that Paine has with the entire idea of Christianity are intricately exposed through Enlightenment ideals, particularly the Catholic ideal that beliefs in the supernatural should be considered over the greater good of reason. Because of Christianity's blatant use of the supernatural, the pressure placed on people to believe in it as a real history of Jesus Christ and the prophets equates to fraud to Paine.
