The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments ; for example, it highlights what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power.

Paine also argues that the Old Testament must be false because it depicts a tyrannical God.

Fischer argues the changing attitudes were buoyed more by writings of Thomas Paine and additional successful actions by the New Jersey Militia than they were by the Battle of Trenton.

While still in France, Paine formed the Church of Theophilanthropy with five other families ; this civil religion held as its central dogma that man should worship God's wisdom and benevolence and imitate those divine attributes as much as possible.

Somewhat similar criticisms have also been expressed by some proponents of liberalism, like Henry George, Silvio Gesell and Thomas Paine, as well as the Distributist school of thought within the Roman Catholic Church.

They include the Algoma Boulevard, Irving / Church, North Main Street, Oshkosh State Normal School on the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh campus, Paine Lumber Company and Washington Avenue historic districts.

When his church, the First Church of Boston, moved into Unitarianism, Paine followed that path.

While Burke supported aristocracy, monarchy, and the Established Church, liberals such as Charles James Fox supported the Revolution, and a programme of individual liberties, civic virtue and religious toleration, while radicals such as Priestley, William Godwin, Thomas Paine, and Mary Wollstonecraft, argued for a further programme of republicanism, agrarian socialism, and abolition of the " landed interest ".

In the spring of 1885, construction began while the Paine family traveled to Europe with Phillips Brooks, a family friend and pastor of Trinity Church in Boston.

Since Hume had already made many of the same " moral attacks upon Christianity " that Paine popularized in The Age of Reason, scholars have concluded that Paine probably read Hume's works on religion or had at least heard about them through the Joseph Johnson circle.

" Although many early English deists had relied on ridicule to attack the Bible and Christianity, theirs was a refined wit rather than the broad humor Paine employed.

Paine wrote that " the people of France were running headlong into atheism and I had the work translated into their own language, to stop them in that career, and fix them to the first article.

Before Paine it had been possible to be both a Christian and a deist ; now such a religious outlook became virtually untenable.

Despite all of these attacks, Paine never wavered in his beliefs ; when he was dying, a woman came to visit him, claiming that God had instructed her to save his soul.

Paine dismissed her in the same tones that he had used in The Age of Reason: " pooh, pooh, it is not true.

Paine, who had only recently arrived in the colonies from England, argued in favor of colonial independence, advocating republicanism as an alternative to monarchy and hereditary rule.

In 1759, Thomas Paine had his home and shop in a house at 20 New Street, Sandwich.

Prior to this trip NASA administrator Thomas O. Paine had approached Collins and said that Secretary of State William P. Rogers was interested in appointing Collins to the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.

Paine also had Flat Rock Camp, his summer retreat on the shores of Lake Champlain, constructed for his family.

Such foreign banking companies had acquired several medium sized securities firms ( such as UBS acquiring Paine Webber and Credit Suisse acquiring Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette ).

They had an ally in American Founding Father Thomas Paine.

* In Tom Paine Maru ( 1984 ), entrepreneurs of the Confederacy travel from world to world, exploring the various kinds of messes made by the Federalists who had been shifted back in time and scattered at random over the universe at the conclusion of The Venus Belt.

Bad weather delayed Longmore from assessing his new pupil, and before the weather improved, the School's Commandant, Captain Godfrey Paine RN had co-opted Trenchard to the permanent staff.

In response to the changing conditions, corporations that had sponsored in-house venture investment arms, including General Electric and Paine Webber either sold off or closed these venture capital units.

The new bridge was designed by James Paine who had previously been responsible for Richmond Bridge.

Three years later he would, against the advice of his friends, take on the defence of Thomas Paine who had been charged with seditious libel after the publication of the second part of his Rights of Man.

Erskine's decision to defend Paine cost him his position as attorney-general ( legal advisor ) to the Prince of Wales, to which he had been appointed in 1786.

Laurens and Paine accused Morris of war profiteering in 1779, and Willing had voted against the Declaration of Independence.

Since leaving NASA fifteen years earlier, Dr. Paine had been a vocal spokesman for an expansive view of what should be done in space.

Paine had lodged with the Bonnevilles in France and was godfather to Benjamin and his two brothers, Louis and Thomas.

Hayek conceded that the national labels did not exactly correspond to those belonging to each tradition: Hayek saw the Frenchmen Montesquieu, Constant and Tocqueville as belonging to the " British tradition " and the British Thomas Hobbes, Priestley, Richard Price and Thomas Paine as belonging to the " French tradition ".

Paine takes advantage of several religious rhetorics beyond those associated with Quakerism in The Age of Reason, most importantly a millennial language that appealed to his lower-class readers.

There were four major factors for this animosity: Paine denied that the Bible was a sacred, inspired text ; he argued that Christianity was a human invention ; his ability to command a large readership frightened those in power ; and his irreverent and satirical style of writing about Christianity and the Bible offended many believers.

Hanson made many recordings ( mostly for Mercury Records ) with the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, not only of his own works, but also those of other American composers such as John Alden Carpenter, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, John Knowles Paine, Walter Piston, and William Grant Still.

Others ( most notably Thomas Paine ) were deists, or at least held beliefs very similar to those of deists.

He was one of the dominant musical figures on the musical scene in Boston and together with a group of other composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the United States.

Thomas Paine stated in his pamphlet Common Sense ( 1776 ): " For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king ; and there ought to be no other.

Scholars such as Gordon Wood describe how Americans were caught up in the Revolutionary fervor and excitement of creating governments, societies, a new nation on the face of the earth by rational choice as Thomas Paine declared in Common Sense.

Thomas Paine in Rights of Man mentions Damiens ' execution as an example of the cruelty of despotic governments ; Paine argues that these methods were the reason why the masses dealt with their prisoners in such a cruel manner when the French Revolution occurred.

* Thomas Paine: Enlightenment writer who defended liberal democracy, the American Revolution, and French Revolution in Common Sense and The Rights of Man.

The Angel, Islington was formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man.

* 1791: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

* Thomas Paine, author of the Rights of Man and The Age of Reason, spent a short time living in Woolwich.

* Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ), American and French Revolution inspiration and author of many works, including " Common Sense " and " The Rights of Man ".

Besides biographical sketches of Defoe, Sir John Davies, Allan Ramsay, Sir David Lyndsay, Churchyard and others, prefixed to editions of their respective works, the British government paid Chalmers 500 pounds sterling to write a hostile biography of Thomas Paine, the author of the Rights of Man, that Chalmers published under the assumed name of Francis Oldys, A. M., of the University of Pennsylvania ; and a life of Ruddiman, in which considerable light is thrown on the state of literature in Scotland during the earlier part of the last century.

Rights of Man ( 1791 ), a book by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests.

Thetford was the birthplace of Thomas Paine and a statue of Paine stands on King Street, holding a quill and his book Rights of Man, upside down.

The conference delegates approved the Thirteen Resolutions, based on the republican document Rights of Man written by British and later American Revolutionary Thomas Paine, which was also adopted by proponents of both the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

He is impressed from another ship, The Rights of Man ( named after the very topical book by Thomas Paine of that period, leading Budd to shout as it leaves " good-by to you too, old Rights-of-Man " clearly intended to have a double meaning, and considered so by the crew who hear it ).

Thomas Paine and his Rights of Man were extremely influential in promoting this ideal in Ireland.

Thomas Paine may have stayed at the inn after he returned from France in 1790 and it is believed that he wrote passages of the Rights of Man whilst staying at the nearby Red Lion, now Old Red Lion, in St. John Street.

In 1791 the English radical Thomas Paine wrote in his Rights of Man that " Had Mr. Burke possessed talents similar to the author ‘ On the Wealth of Nations ,’ he would have comprehended all the parts which enter into, and, by assemblage, form a constitution ".

# " Rights of Man " by Thomas Paine

* 1790: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

The publication of this work drew a swift response, first with Rights of Man ( 1791-2 ) by Thomas Paine, and then with A Vindication of the Rights of Man ( 1792 ) by Mary Wollstonecraft.

Are they to range at large, in every town and every house, preaching their doctrines, and perhaps even buying proselytes ?— are Englishmen to be sent to Paris to be witnesses of the successful result of audacious usurpation, and of the elevation of Tom Paine, from a Staymaker to a fine Gentleman, from an Exciseman to a Sovereign, as the reward of the Rights of Man and the Age of Reason — I fear Restriction and Coercion will avail little against the influence of example — but our Ministers have made up their minds, to save Jacobinism, at its last gasp, and the experiment of shaking hands with it ...

In the wake of the French Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote The Rights of Man ( 1791 ) as a response to Burke's counterrevolutionary essay Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ), itself an attack on Richard Price's sermon that kicked off the so-called " pamphlet war " known as the Revolution Controversy.

His first written work for the stage was In Lambeth, an imaginary conversation about revolution between the poet and artist William Blake, his wife Catherine and Thomas Paine, author of The Rights of Man.