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The celebration of Thomas Paine's birthday, though largely forgotten today was once a “tradition of central importance for reform and free thought movements in the U.S. and the world.”
Paine's birthday was a core celebration that was utilized as a platform for women's rights and suffrage, abolition, education, labor, land reform, and a host of progressive causes throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.”
So why is Thomas Paine, arguably the intellectual father of the American Revolution, the very man who invented the phrase “The United States of America”, today it’s most unheralded and forgotten founding father?…..see quotes below.
Paine's birthday was a core celebration that was utilized as a platform for women's rights and suffrage, abolition, education, labor, land reform, and a host of progressive causes throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.”
So why is Thomas Paine, arguably the intellectual father of the American Revolution, the very man who invented the phrase “The United States of America”, today it’s most unheralded and forgotten founding father?…..see quotes below.
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The Lost Founder
The American Prospect Magazine, July 2005
Thomas Paine Info at PBS.org
Read More About Thomas Paine Birthday Celebrations
Thomas Paine Wikipedia Article
Read His Seminal Works Online
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and here
The Thomaspainesociety.org
The Lost Founder
The American Prospect Magazine, July 2005
Thomas Paine Info at PBS.org
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“all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, t renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as ameans of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
“but the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any…”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for imposters to preach and fools to believe.”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
“The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.”
Thomas Paine, The Theological Works of Thomas Paine
“Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance.”
Thomas Paine, The Theological Works of Thomas Paine, p.207
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
“When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.”
Thomas Paine, in Toward The Mystery
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most destructive to the peace of man since man began to exist. Among the most detestable villains in history, you could not find one worse than Moses, who gave an order to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers and then rape the daughters. One of the most horrible atrocities found in the literature of any nation. I would not dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.
“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
“Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
“but the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any…”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for imposters to preach and fools to believe.”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
“The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.”
Thomas Paine, The Theological Works of Thomas Paine
“Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance.”
Thomas Paine, The Theological Works of Thomas Paine, p.207
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
“When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.”
Thomas Paine, in Toward The Mystery
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most destructive to the peace of man since man began to exist. Among the most detestable villains in history, you could not find one worse than Moses, who gave an order to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers and then rape the daughters. One of the most horrible atrocities found in the literature of any nation. I would not dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.
“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
“Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!”
Thomas Paine, source unknown
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