The Trade and Profession of Cleric

and ... "any other book" but the Bible

"Did we find in any other book pretending to give a system of religion, the falsehoods, falsifications, contradictions, and absurdities, which are to be met with in almost every page of the Old and New Testament, all the priests of the present day, who supposed themselves capable, would triumphantly show their skill in criticism, and cry it down as a most glaring imposition. But since the books in question belong to their own trade and profession, they or at least many of them, seek to stifle every inquiry into them and abuse those who have the honesty and the courage to do it."

Thomas Paine in AGE OF REASON
Part 3, Section 4