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.

Paine takes great lengths to state that Americans do not lack force, but " a proper application of that force "-implying throughout that an extended war can lead only to defeat unless a stable army was composed not of militia but of trained professionals.

Fearing unpleasant and even violent reprisals, Thomas Jefferson convinced him not to publish it in 1802 ; five years later Paine decided to publish despite the backlash he knew would ensue.

Paine acknowledged that he was indebted to his Quaker background for his skepticism, but the Quakers ' esteem for plain speaking, a value expressed both explicitly and implicitly in The Age of Reason, influenced his writing even more.

In that house, or the church itself, he was visited by Founding Fathers of the United States such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine ; other American politicians such as John Adams, who later became the second president of the United States, and his wife Abigail ; British politicians such as Lord Lyttleton, the Earl of Shelburne, Earl Stanhope ( known as " Citizen Stanhope "), and even the Prime Minister William Pitt ; philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith ; agitators such as prison reformer John Howard, gadfly John Horne Tooke, and husband and wife John and Ann Jebb, who between them campaigned on expansion of the franchise, opposition to the war with America, support for the French Revolution, abolitionism, and an end to legal discrimination against Roman Catholics ; writers such as poet and banker Samuel Rogers ; and clergyman-mathematician Thomas Bayes, of Bayes ' theorem.

Paine admires Adams ' ability to be impartial even while he detests the British stationed in Boston.

Wodehouse's Jeeves, in that he is very intelligent ( much more so than his employers ), well-read ( he reads Thomas Paine while awaiting orders ) and incredibly efficient, ministering to his employers ' every need, and even anticipating them.

I thank you heartily for the pamphlet, and for the authorities you give me for the doctrines I have sworn by, long and long since: I know not how long, they have been my creed: I believe, before even my happiness in your acquaintance and friendship, tho ' they have certainly been strengthen'd and confirm'd by your conversation and instruction — in support of these principles I trust I shall ever act, and I shall continue to attempt their general propagation ;— whether by the best means, is matter of speculation: but by the best, according to my judgement — nothing can make me a disciple of Paine or Priestley, nor any thing induce me to proclaim, that I am not so, but in the mode I myself think the best to resist their mischief — private conversation and private insinuation may best suit the extent of my abilities, the turn of my temper, and the nature of my character ...

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 ...

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 ".

Popular Radicals were quick to go further than Paine, with Newcastle schoolmaster Thomas Spence demanding land nationalisation to redistribute wealth in a penny periodical he called Pig's Meat in a reference to Edmund Burke's phrase " the swinish multitude ".

An era ended when Bates retired from management in 1973 and Paine moved to Hereford United in the summer of 1974 to make a further 106 appearances thus establishing an all-time league record of 819 appearances.

These deists, while maintaining individual positions, still shared several sets of assumptions and arguments that Paine articulated in The Age of Reason.

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.

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

At the same time James Paine designed the new bridge to the north of the house, which was set at an angle of 40 degrees to command the best view of the West Front of the house.

According to an account by Elbert Hubbard in the same volume ( p. 314 ), Paine organized " the Bank of North America to raise money to feed and clothe the army, and performed sundry and various services for the colonies.

Ruth had also separated from her husband, Michael Paine, at about the same time.

Paine is Danny O ' Brien's friend, and a former reporter at the Mountain Monitor who was fired for the same reason as O ' Brien.

He had been studying Russian with Paine at his school, St. Mark's in Dallas, where he also developed his taste for theatre, joining the same drama group as Tommy Lee Jones.

Urging his readers to employ reason rather than to rely on revelation, Paine argues that the only reliable, unchanging and universal evidence of God's existence is the natural world.

Through Paine, the machine in his state accuses Smith of trying to profit from his bill by producing fraudulent evidence that Smith already owns the land in question.

In 1784 Thomas Paine purchased an area of pasture including Great Lydes to build houses overlooking Bath, although there is evidence of Iron Age and Roman settlement on the area.

" Paine " transformed the millennial Protestant vision of the rule of Christ on earth into a secular image of utopia ," emphasizing the possibilities of " progress " and " human perfectibility " that could be achieved by humankind, without God's aid.

Interest in the idea was revived in the eighteenth century, in such texts as the Historical Essay on the English Constitution ( 1771 ) and John Cartwright's Take Your Choice ( 1777 ) and featured in the debate between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke.

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.

He was met by Thomas O. Paine, the Administrator of NASA, whom he told that in the face of such suffering, space flight represented an inhuman priority and funds should be spent instead to " feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick, and house the homeless.

Having created this model of what the balance should be, Paine goes on to consider the Constitution of the United Kingdom.

Paine writes that a Continental Charter " should come from some intermediate body between the Congress and the people " and outlines a Continental Conference that could draft a Continental Charter.

Thomas Paine suggested that a congress may be created in the following way: each colony should be divided in districts ; each district would " send a proper number of delegates to Congress ".

Paine thought that each colony should send at least 30 delegates to Congress, and that the total number of delegates in Congress should be at least 390.

Upon return to the United States with this highly welcomed cargo, Thomas Paine " positively objected " that Washington should propose that Congress remunerate him for his services for fear of setting " a bad precedent and an improper mode ".

The credit for obtaining the critical loans in 1781 and 1782, and first " organizing " the Bank of North America for approval by Congress in December 1781 should certainly include Henry or John Laurens and Thomas Paine.

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

Without such a declaration, Paine concluded, “ he custom of all courts is against us, and will be so, until, by an independence, we take rank with other nations .”

The government insisted that Paine be deported to the United States.

In the late 18th century the deist Thomas Paine commented at length on Moses ' Laws in The Age of Reason, and gave his view that " the character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined ", giving the story at as an example.

* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

These trials continue to be cited by some sources as the first cures using penicillin, though the Paine trials took place earlier.

Describing the Bible as " fabulous mythology ", Paine questions whether or not it was revealed to its writers and doubts that the original writers can ever be known ( he dismisses the idea that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, for example ).

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

" Citing Numbers 31: 13 – 47 as an example, in which Moses orders the slaughter of thousands of boys and women, and sanctions the rape of thousands of girls, at God's behest, Paine calls the Bible a " book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy ; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty!

Paine would have been particularly drawn to Hume's description of religion as " a positive source of harm to society " that " led men to be factious, ambitious and intolerant ".

Bishop Richard Watson, forced to address this new audience in his influential response to Paine, An Apology for the Bible, writes: " I shall, designedly, write this and the following letters in a popular manner ; hoping that thereby they may stand a chance of being perused by that class of readers, for whom your work seems to be particularly calculated, and who are the most likely to be injured by it.

One reason Paine may have been drawn to this style is because he may have briefly been a Methodist preacher, although this suspicion cannot be verified.

" The periodical The Freethinker ( founded in 1881 by George Foote ) argued, like Paine, that the " absurdities of faith " could be " slain with laughter ".

Paine became so reviled that he could still be maligned as a " filthy little atheist " by Theodore Roosevelt over one hundred years later.

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

when both rights and reason are under several kinds of open and covert attack, the life and writing of Thomas Paine will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend.

Paine is considered to be a significant early independent publisher and a zinester in his own right, but then, the mass media as we now know it did not exist.

What is now the Paducah and Louisville Railway built a station in the area in 1874, and a summer resort and hotel called Paine Hotel developed around a shaded ridge on Muldraugh Hill, what came to be called Pleasure Ridge.

There the prisoners received kind treatment from the Hardin family and Harriet Paine, a slave of Hardin's who lived to be nearly 100 and contributed to the area's history and folklore.

Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason that " whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God.

It was John Knowles Paine, however, who became the first American composer to be accepted in Europe.

Paine was a roommate of Tone's compatriot, " Citizen Lord " Edward FitzGerald, in Paris ; and Paine's famous themes of the " rights of man " and " common sense " can be seen in the opening paragraph of the Declaration of the United Irishmen.