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Title: The Age of Reason (Dover Value Editions)
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| The Age of Reason (Dover Value Editions) by Dover Publications The literal and the symbolic | In the Bible, some statements are literal, others are figures of speech. Therefore the various interpretations.
Mr. Paine takes almost every statement in the Bible literally and then comes up with his criticisms. This has caused some to consider him an atheist. The book is primarily a critique of the Bible, but where he states his own views, he says that he believes in God and he hopes for happiness beyond this life. So he is not an atheist.
His previous writings were of a political nature. When he decided to take on the Bible, he was moving out of his usual field, therefore his authority here is questionable. | | The Age of Reason (Dover Value Editions) by Dover Publications Deist but definitely NOT atheist | | Very instructive book allowing to peer into the minds of one of the famed deits of the American Revolution. Very far from the worldview of the average christian believers of the times of Georges W. Bush but also distinctly different from modern atheism, scientific or otherwise. | | The Age of Reason (Dover Value Editions) by Dover Publications Paine Rocks! Christians need to start thinking for themselves! | The only thing I really have to say is let us not forget the words in the Declaration of Independence.....
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The UNANIMOUS DECLARTION of the 13 States of America:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the "Laws of Nature" and of "Nature's God" entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Notice how it doesn't say the "Laws of the Bible" or of "the Biblical God"
The founders did not base the Declaration of Independane on the principals of Christianity.
Thomas Paine knew what he was talking about. This is undoubtly the best book written to open the eyes of the ignorant regarding religion. Some say it takes "faith" to believe. Well doesn't that mean in order to believe it you have to stop using your brain?
Paine didn't need "faith" to understand the creator. He understood the creator by the "facts" of what he saw in "nature."
Reading this book "saved" me from the internal turmoil of "religion" and for that I will be forever grateful to him.
Knowledge and Reason were given to us by the "creator" and I doubt very much that the "creator" would punish us for using them. | | The Age of Reason (Dover Value Editions) by Dover Publications On Religion ... | Thomas Paine:
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
But, lest it should be supposed that I believe in many other things in addition to these, I shall, in the progress of this work, declare the things I do not believe, and my reasons for not believing them.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
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.
I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of a priest for the sake of gain, and in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive any thing more destructive to morality than this?
| | The Age of Reason (Dover Value Editions) by Dover Publications .A Call for Rationalism in Religion | | The patriotic writer and essayist of the American and French Revolutions sets forth his beliefs on the place of religion in society. He affirms the need for rationalism in religion, attacks national religious institutions, and points out inconsistencies and fallacies of the Bible. This was first published in 1795 and it is still interesting reding today. | | The Age of Reason (Dover Value Editions) by Dover Publications Product Description | Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work. An attack on revealed religion from the deist point of view — embodied by Paine's credo, "I believe in one God, and no more" — its critical and objective examination of Old and New Testaments cites numerous contradictions.
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