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Of the Sabbath Day in Connecticut
The word Sabbath, means REST; that is, cessation from labor, but the stupid Blue Laws of Connecticut make a labor of rest, for they...
Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20212 min read


Thomas Paine Addresses Calvinist Clergy on Predestination
PREDESTINATION REMARKS ON ROMANS, IX, 18-21 Addressed to the Ministers of the Calvinistic Church Paul, in speaking of God, says,...
Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20215 min read


Thomas Paine on the Meaning of the Word Religion and Other Words of Uncertain Signification
The 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 Paine
Jul 11, 20215 min read


To 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 Paine
Jul 11, 20216 min read


To Mr. Moore of New York, Commonly Called Bishop Moore
I 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 Paine
Jul 11, 20214 min read


Correspondence Between Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams Regarding Religion and Deism
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE HON. SAMUEL ADAMS To the Editor of the National Intelligencer, Federal City By Thomas Paine Toward the latter end...
Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 202111 min read


My Private Thoughts on a Future State
I 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 Paine
Jul 11, 20213 min read


Thomas Paine's Ideas Regarding Death In A LETTER TO ANDREW DEAN
I 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 Paine
Jul 11, 20214 min read


A Letter to a Christian Friend Regarding The Age of Reason
Thomas 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 Paine
Jul 11, 20216 min read


Emotionally Charged Charismatic Christian Revival Meetings
In 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 Paine
Jul 11, 20212 min read


Biblical Anachronism
In 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 Paine
Jul 11, 20211 min read


Of The Books of the New Testament, Address to the Believers in the Book Called the Scriptures
The New Testament contains twenty-seven books, of which four are called Gospels; one called the Acts of the Apostles; fourteen called the...
Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20218 min read


Of The Old and New Testament
Archbishop Tillotson says: "The difference between the style of the Old and New Testament is so very remarkable, that one of the...
Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20212 min read


Inquiring 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...
Thomas Paine
Jul 10, 20217 min read


Of Cain and Abel
The story of Cain and Abel is told in Genesis iv. Cain was the elder brother, and Abel the younger, and Cain killed Abel. The Egyptian...
Thomas Paine
Jul 10, 20212 min read


The Tower of Babel
The story of the tower of Babel is told in Genesis xi. It begins thus: "And the whole earth [it was but a very little part of it they...
Thomas Paine
Jul 10, 20213 min read


A Discourse at the Society of Theophilanthropists
RELIGION has two principal enemies, Fanaticism and Infidelity, or that which is called Atheism. The first requires to be combated by...
Thomas Paine
Jul 10, 202112 min read


Remarks on R. Hall's Sermon
The preacher of the foregoing sermon speaks a great deal about infidelity, but does not define what he means by it. His harangue is a...
Thomas Paine
Jul 10, 20213 min read


Extract From a Reply to the Bishop of Llandaff From Thomas Paine
The bishop says, "the oldest book in the world is Genesis." This is mere assertion; he offers no proof of it, and I go to controvert it,...
Thomas Paine
Jul 10, 202140 min read


Old Testament Prophesies About Jesus Proven False
Tune in your television to any of the Bible preaching stations clogging the air waves. You're bound to encounter, not only as Bono of U-2...
Thomas Paine
Jul 10, 202167 min read
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