Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine was an English-born American Founding Father, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. His pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis framed the Patriot argument for independen
Portrait by Laurent Dabos, c. 1792
Old School at Thetford Grammar School, where Paine was educated
Thomas Paine's house in Lewes
Plaque at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, East Sussex, south east England
Deism
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Deism is the belief, based solely upon logic and observation while rejecting any supernatural speculation, that a Supreme Being or God created the universe. As a philosophical position and rationalist
Thomas Paine
…notorious because of his pamphlets and attacks on his former allies, who he felt had betrayed him. In The Age of Reason and other writings, he advocated Deism, promoted reason and freethought, and argued against religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular. In 1796, he published a bitter open…
Lord Herbert of Cherbury, portrayed by Isaac Oliver, c. 1603–05
David Hume
Thomas Paine
On positive German God-belief (1939)