The Age of ReasonCosimo, Inc., 2005 M01 1 - 220 pages An idealist, a radical, and a master rhetorician, Thomas Paine wrote and lived with a keen sense of urgency and excitement.In The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine declares that all religious traditions are ultimately established for the dependence of mankind. He openly criticizes the Bible and many of the fallacies contained within, as well as providing a shrewd analysis of Christianity and how it developed from its pagan ancestry-arguments many critics claim carry weight today.Paine alienated many of his countrymen with his incendiary viewpoints. Forced to leave America for England, Paine eventually returned to the United States in 1802, though he remained all but ostracized. He died in poverty seven years later in 1809.AUTHOR BIO: Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an Anglo-American political theorist and writer born in Norfolk, England. In 1774, Paine emigrated to America, bearing letters of introduction from Benjamin Franklin. Soon thereafter, he became involved in the clashes between England and the American colonies and published the enormously successful pamphlet Common Sense in 1776, which was widely distributed and contributed to the patriot cause throughout the American Revolution. |
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... writing . Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication After this , it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him ; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it , it ...
... writing . Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication After this , it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him ; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it , it ...
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... written in Heaven and brought to Mahomet by an angel , the account comes too near the same kind of hearsay evidence and secondhand authority as the former . I did not see the angel myself , and , therefore , I have a right not to ...
... written in Heaven and brought to Mahomet by an angel , the account comes too near the same kind of hearsay evidence and secondhand authority as the former . I did not see the angel myself , and , therefore , I have a right not to ...
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... writing . The history of him is altogether the work of other people ; and as to the account given of his resurrection and ascension , it was the necessary counterpart to the story of his birth . His historians having brought him into ...
... writing . The history of him is altogether the work of other people ; and as to the account given of his resurrection and ascension , it was the necessary counterpart to the story of his birth . His historians having brought him into ...
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... know , as it is for us to be assured that the books in which the account is related were written by the persons whose names they bear . The best surviving evidence we now have respecting this affair is the Jews . They 11 AGE OF REASON.
... know , as it is for us to be assured that the books in which the account is related were written by the persons whose names they bear . The best surviving evidence we now have respecting this affair is the Jews . They 11 AGE OF REASON.
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... writing ; and if they were fictions , revelation could not make them true ; and whether true or not , we are neither the better nor the wiser for knowing them . When we contemplate the immensity of that Being who directs and governs the ...
... writing ; and if they were fictions , revelation could not make them true ; and whether true or not , we are neither the better nor the wiser for knowing them . When we contemplate the immensity of that Being who directs and governs the ...
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Page 32 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 75 - And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh...
Page 74 - LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 114 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 111 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 143 - Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Page 101 - Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, the Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.