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“My own mind is my own church.” - Thomas Paine The Age of Reason is one of the most inspirational demonstrations of religious criticism and Enlightenment thought. Paine advocates for reason and freethinking in the place of revelation, deftly employing common language, irreverent wit, and...

Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, published in three parts from 1794, was a best seller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. Promoting a creator-God while advocating reason in the place of revelation, Paine’s controversial pamphlet caused his native British audience, fearing the results of the French Revolution, to receive it with more hostility than their American counterparts.

Declaring the church corrupt and urging rationality over revelation, Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason directly opposed the existing political and religious order of his time. Initially printed in pamphlet form, his work audaciously employed “vulgar” everyday language, as Paine sought to bring his message, and the appeal of deism, to the masses.

In 1789, the people of France decided to overtake the monarchy of their country in favor of a republic. The French Revolution played out like an echo of the American Revolution of the decade prior, with people rising against their governing bodies. Like the American Revolution, the French Revolution had its dissidents and supporters. Thomas Paine was one such supporter, and Rights of Man was his manifesto in support of people fighting for liberty.

The Politics Collection brings together some of the most influential works ever written on power, government, economics, and the organisation of human society. From the foundations of democracy and the nature of political authority to the forces that drive markets, shape revolutions, and...

The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine. The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thomas Paine. The Age of Reason challenges institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible, the central sacred text of Christianity. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, it was a bestseller in the United States, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. Part 1 was written sometime in 1793, and attacks the concepts of divine revelation and inspiration. He urged his readers to employ ...

From colonial times into the 20th century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Only in the 20th century, with the passage of laws allowing for conscientious objection to war, did nonbelief enter debates about religious liberty. Still, today every one of the 20 states has God written into its constitution. God is everywhere in American public life. R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick explore both God's omnipresence and the dramatic rise in nonbelievers that has led to an "atheist awakening" intent on holding the country to its secular principles.

In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being that most of them have been incorrectly ascribed to the persons whose names they bear and that they cannot be proved to be the “word of God.” Calling himself a deist, he identifies the physical universe and every individual’s private conscience as the only infallible revelations of the Almighty’s power, character, and will. His argument is based on reason and common sense, and his sole scholarly resources are the words of the Bible itself. He ...

The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a thought-provoking pamphlet penned by the revolutionary Thomas Paine, who played a pivotal role in both British and American history. This groundbreaking work confronts institutionalized religion and questions the legitimacy of the Bible, the cornerstone of Christianity. Originally published in three parts between 1794 and 1807, it quickly became a bestseller in the United States, sparking a brief revival of Deism. In Part 1, written in 1793, Paine boldly critiques the ideas of divine revelation and inspiration, urging...

In Age of Reason, Thomas Paine boldly challenges the authenticity of the Old and New Testaments, revealing that many biblical books have been misattributed to their supposed authors and cannot be definitively proven as the “word of God.” As a self-identified deist, Paine argues that the physical universe and each individuals conscience are the only true revelations of the Almightys essence and will. Grounded in reason and common sense, he uses the Bible itself as his sole scholarly resource to critique the biblical depiction of God, whom he views as a cruel and capricious figure, starkly ...

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Read by the authors. When suffering takes you by surprise, joy isn't cancelled. In Joy Isn't Canceled, Carlos and Alexa invite you into their honest journey through loss to discover unexpected hope, community, and strength. When Carlos and Alexa PenaVega lost their newborn daughter, Indy, their...

Entrepreneur, author, and popular blogger Crystal Paine shares the secrets of building income at home, using real life examples to from her own journey in becoming a money-making mom as well as the stories of other women from all walks of life. The nuts and bolts of how to make more money from...

A revolutionary approach to dealing with life's challenges that guides readers in how to face them and to recognize them as gifts from God.At one time or another everyone finds themselves questioning, "Does God still love me? Is there a purpose for all this pain?" Drs. Meier and Henderson teach...

How do you experience God's intimate, comforting, tangible presence? In The Luckiest Man, John Paine reveals how he found the answer to this most important of all questions--by facing a terminal diagnosis. At middle age, John Paine thought he knew what it meant to have a relationship with God...

Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls naked—meaning and connection would fall from words of poetry and fiction, music would go back to common air, and all the forms of subtle and enchanting Art would lose proportion and become the unmeaning waste and shattered spoil of thoughtless Chance."[/i] One of the most famous orators of his day, a contemporary and personal friend of Mark Twain and General Grant,...

A Moving Story of Redemption and Second Chances Jep Robertson, the youngest son of Duck Commander Phil Robertson, and his wife, Jessica, open up about their personal trials, their early years together, and the challenges that might have destroyed them both had the grace of God not intervened...

What hopeless situation troubles your heart? The death of a loved one? The memories of childhood abuse? The diagnosis of terminal illness? The strain of financial failure? A stormy marriage? A body wracked by pain? A lonely sense of emptiness? Into your hopeless situation comes beloved...

Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive episode of Still Coloring with Toni Collier and bonus prayers for women in ministry and those going through divorce. None of us are perfect. And that is okay! Trauma, abuse, childhood wounds, and toxic relationships have broken us. But there is no...

Read by the author. In a broken world, we ache for a way to walk through life without giving up or giving in. Instead of breaking down, Jesus offers us another way: breaking open. Discover a new way of living and rise with hope, power, and purpose! Everyone aches to be whole. We ache to be...