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Anglo-American revolutionary writer Thomas Paine, the great radical,
deomocrat and secularist was born in England, Jan. 29, 1737, and died
June 8, 1809. Paine called for American independence in his 1776 pamphlet
"Common Sense”, which was widely distributed and had a profound
influence on public opinion in America. Paine argued rationally that all
men had an equal claim to political rights and that government must rest
on the ultimate sovereignty of the people. He said famously, “If
we don’t hang together, we shall surely hang separately.”
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Thomas Paine (29th January 1737, Thetford, Great Britain –
8th June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical
intellectual, and deist. Born British, he lived in America having emigrated
to the American colonies just in time for him to take part in the American
Revolution, mainly as the author of the powerful and widely read pamphlet
Common Sense, which advocated independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
He later took part in the French Revolution, and narrowly missed being
executed during the Terror. He wrote Rights of Man as a reply to Edmund
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and as an outline of
his general political philosophy, one emphasising personal liberty and
limited government. Paine became notorious for his book The Age of Reason,
which contained a defense of deism, arguments against the doctrines of
Christianity and criticism of the Bible as a moral guide and historical
record. In Agrarian Justice, he argued for a public old age pension, anticipating
the welfare state, and for paying a capital sum to the young to help them
establish a career. (more)
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Thomas Paine, the original secular progressive
“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
Articles and Links on Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine on Theology & Christianity
Is There Any God to Study in Christianity?
by
Austin Cline
A
Biography of Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
Writings by Thomas Paine
Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion
The Existence of
God.
A Discourse at the Society of Theophilanthropists, Paris
The
American Crisis
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and
the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of
their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks
of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we
have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more
glorious the triumph.”
Dissertation
on the First Principles
of Government
Life and Writings of Thomas Paine. Edited and annotated by Daniel Edwin Wheeler
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