Age of Reason.
BEING AN INVESTIGATION OF
True and Fabulous Theology
BY
THOMAS PAINE,
Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution
The Age of Reason is undoubtedly one of the ablest and boldest arguments ever put forth against the Bible as being the inspired word of God.
Its author, although born in England, warmly espoused the cause of the patriots in the American Revolution, and wrote and published several pamphlets at that time which renewed the determination of the men of ’76 to conquer or die.
He afterward went to France, and at the time of the French Revolution was a member of the Convention. A motion being made in that body to exclude foreigners, of which there were but himself and one other, and as he was particularly referred to by the mover of the resolution, he conceived that he had but a few days of liberty, and immediately proceeded to write the second part of the “Age of Reason,” the first part having been written some time before. Shortly after it was finished, Thomas Paine was arrested as a foreigner and conveyed to the prison of the Luxembourg. He contrived on his way there to call on Joel Barlow, and put in his hands the manuscript of the second part of the “Age of Reason,” addressed to the protection of the citizens of the United States.
AGE OF REASON
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