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#7,447 • lol no he {Thomas Paine} was just a hired propagandist, a secretary. He was promptly unemployed and forgotten after the British were defeated. He's only norteworthy today because a lot of perverts and assorted Xian bashers need to pretend his silly radicalism was widespread, people like yourself, since it's nearly impossible to find all these Xian hating Founders they keep lying about when they go after pastors hoping to shut them up
NFBW: Why does @DudleySmith’s post 7447 reek of white right wing Christians constant bitching and moaning they are victims of everybody and everything that is not Christian about America.
Why are white Christian anti-Freedom of choice nationalists afraid of history being taught that our founders and our first generation of patriots voted for no sin&salvation superstition, no Bible is the Word of God Presidents to get the ball rolling after throwing off the yoke of the British Christian Crown.
The way Paine was treated by Christians after he inspired the revolution with the social media of his time is a travesty.,
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#7,446 • Paine was a rational theist who rationalized that Christian kings needed to be deposed for true liberty to spread among nations of mankind.
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#37 james bond • Can we all kick the atheists out and send them on a slow to boat to China, an atheist country (!)?
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#39 • One basic argument against Christian Nationalism is that Protestant Christianity’s mainstream preachers and followers beliefs intersected with the very profound influence of the secular Age of Reason. And it worked. That is what culminated in the founding of the United States of America.
The Christian side of that Joint Venture was not sufficient enough to label or the entire creation a Christian Nation with its most precious religious freedom’s protections for patriots like Thomas Paine who rejected the dominant religion of his time.
The collision between faith and reason in pre-Revolution America forever changed Christianity in a most profound way. All for the good of mankind.
Most of the Men of Reason, at the critical time of American history, did not lose the utmost respect for the moral civilizing impact that Protestantism had on keeping order among the population. They knew that traditional religion was needed to build a great nation. Reason did not dictate opposition to the church.
Jefferson, Paine and Ethan Allen were the exceptions of that.
This is difficult to explain to people who want faith and faith alone to be the spark and fire of the Revolution and founding. That’s not even half true.
I want to introduce another one of the heroes and great patriots of revolutionary time that some credit with being at the top of the list of persuading the Christian population to revolt and fight a war against a King that embodied God’s rule on earth.
This is Thomas Paine. He wrote the AGE OF REASON.
The Age of Reason - Wikipedia
Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain
[1]) (February 9, 1737 [
O.S. January 29, 1736]
[Note 1] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American
political activist,
philosopher,
political theorist, and
revolutionary. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the
American Revolution and inspired the
patriots in 1776 to declare independence from
Great Britain.
[2] His ideas reflected
Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights.
[3] Historian
Saul K. Padover described him as "a
corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".
[4]
Born
Thomas Pain
February 9, 1737
Thetford,
Norfolk,
Great Britain
Died June 8, 1809(aged 72)
New York City,
Era
Age of Enlightenment
School LiberalismRepublicanism
Main interests
Politics,
ethics,
religion
Influences
Influenced
- Thomas Jefferson, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jyotirao Phule, Moncure D. Conway, Bertrand Russell, Christopher Hitchens, Robert G. Ingersoll
NFBW: When you identify America as a Christian Nation you stamp out many of the greatest minds and patriots like Thomas Paine whom many sin and salvation Christians labeled as an Atheist for writing things like the Age of Reason.
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