World Union of DeistsJul 24, 20211 minFree Deism ePublicationsBelow are some free Deism ePublications. I hope you find them to be thought-provoking, inspiring and useful. Please feel free to share...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20212 minA Humorous Poem by Thomas Paine - The Monk and the JewAn unbelieving Jew one day Was skating o’er the icy way, Which being brittle let him in, Just deep enough to catch his chin; And in that...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 202117 minOrigins of FreemasonryIt is always understood that Freemasons have a secret which they carefully conceal; but from everything that can be collected from their...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20217 minOn Deism and the Writings of Thomas PaineThe following reflections, written last winter, were occasioned by certain expressions in some of the public papers against Deism and the...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20212 minThomas Paine on Christian Missionaries to American IndiansTO THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, STYLING ITSELF THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY The New York Gazette of the sixteenth (August) contains the...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 202112 minWorship and Church Bells - A Letter to Camille JordanCITIZEN REPRESENTATIVE: As everything in your Report, relating to what you call worship, connects itself with the books called the...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20212 minOf the Sabbath Day in ConnecticutThe word Sabbath, means REST; that is, cessation from labor, but the stupid Blue Laws of Connecticut make a labor of rest, for they...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20215 minThomas Paine Addresses Calvinist Clergy on PredestinationPREDESTINATION REMARKS ON ROMANS, IX, 18-21 Addressed to the Ministers of the Calvinistic Church Paul, in speaking of God, says,...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20215 minThomas Paine on the Meaning of the Word Religion and Other Words of Uncertain SignificationThe word religion is a word of forced application when used with respect to the worship of God. The root of the word is the Latin verb...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20216 minTo Christian Clergyman John Mason Regarding His Visit With Alexander Hamilton"Come now, let us REASON together saith the Lord." This is one of the passages you quoted from your Bible, in your conversation with...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20214 minTo Mr. Moore of New York, Commonly Called Bishop MooreI have read in the newspapers your account of the visit you made to the unfortunate General Hamilton,[1] and of administering to him a...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 202111 minCorrespondence Between Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams Regarding Religion and DeismCORRESPONDENCE WITH THE HON. SAMUEL ADAMS To the Editor of the National Intelligencer, Federal City By Thomas Paine Toward the latter end...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20213 minMy Private Thoughts on a Future StateI have said, in the first part of the “Age of Reason,” that “I hope for happiness after this life.” This hope is comfortable to me, and I...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20214 minThomas Paine's Ideas Regarding Death In A LETTER TO ANDREW DEANI received your friendly letter, for which I am obliged to you. It is three weeks ago today (Sunday, August fifteenth), that I was struck...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20216 minA Letter to a Christian Friend Regarding The Age of ReasonThomas Paine Paris, May 12, 1797 In your letter of the twentieth of March, you give me several quotations from the Bible, which you call...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20212 minEmotionally Charged Charismatic Christian Revival MeetingsIn the fifth chapter of Mark, we read a strange story of the devil getting into the swine after he had been turned out of a man, and as...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20211 minBiblical AnachronismIn addition to the judicious remarks in your twelfth number, on the absurd story of Noah's Flood, in Genesis vii, I send you the...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20218 minOf The Books of the New Testament, Address to the Believers in the Book Called the ScripturesThe New Testament contains twenty-seven books, of which four are called Gospels; one called the Acts of the Apostles; fourteen called the...
Thomas PaineJul 11, 20212 minOf The Old and New TestamentArchbishop Tillotson says: "The difference between the style of the Old and New Testament is so very remarkable, that one of the...
Thomas PaineJul 10, 20217 minInquiring Into the Truth or Falsehood of Religion It has been customary to class history into three divisions, distinguished by the names of Sacred, Profane, and Ecclesiastical. By the...