Free Deism ePublications
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20212 min read
A Humorous Poem by Thomas Paine - The Monk and the Jew
An unbelieving Jew one day Was skating o’er the icy way, Which being brittle let him in, Just deep enough to catch his chin; And in that...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 202117 min read
Origins of Freemasonry
It is always understood that Freemasons have a secret which they carefully conceal; but from everything that can be collected from their...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20217 min read
On Deism and the Writings of Thomas Paine
The following reflections, written last winter, were occasioned by certain expressions in some of the public papers against Deism and the...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 202112 min read
Worship and Church Bells - A Letter to Camille Jordan
CITIZEN REPRESENTATIVE: As everything in your Report, relating to what you call worship, connects itself with the books called the...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20212 min read
Of the Sabbath Day in Connecticut
The word Sabbath, means REST; that is, cessation from labor, but the stupid Blue Laws of Connecticut make a labor of rest, for they...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20215 min read
Thomas Paine Addresses Calvinist Clergy on Predestination
PREDESTINATION REMARKS ON ROMANS, IX, 18-21 Addressed to the Ministers of the Calvinistic Church Paul, in speaking of God, says,...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20215 min read
Thomas Paine on the Meaning of the Word Religion and Other Words of Uncertain Signification
The word religion is a word of forced application when used with respect to the worship of God. The root of the word is the Latin verb...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20216 min read
To Christian Clergyman John Mason Regarding His Visit With Alexander Hamilton
"Come now, let us REASON together saith the Lord." This is one of the passages you quoted from your Bible, in your conversation with...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20214 min read
To Mr. Moore of New York, Commonly Called Bishop Moore
I have read in the newspapers your account of the visit you made to the unfortunate General Hamilton,[1] and of administering to him a...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 202111 min read
Correspondence Between Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams Regarding Religion and Deism
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE HON. SAMUEL ADAMS To the Editor of the National Intelligencer, Federal City By Thomas Paine Toward the latter end...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20213 min read
My Private Thoughts on a Future State
I have said, in the first part of the “Age of Reason,” that “I hope for happiness after this life.” This hope is comfortable to me, and I...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20214 min read
Thomas Paine's Ideas Regarding Death In A LETTER TO ANDREW DEAN
I received your friendly letter, for which I am obliged to you. It is three weeks ago today (Sunday, August fifteenth), that I was struck...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20216 min read
A Letter to a Christian Friend Regarding The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine Paris, May 12, 1797 In your letter of the twentieth of March, you give me several quotations from the Bible, which you call...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20212 min read
Emotionally Charged Charismatic Christian Revival Meetings
In the fifth chapter of Mark, we read a strange story of the devil getting into the swine after he had been turned out of a man, and as...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20211 min read
Biblical Anachronism
In addition to the judicious remarks in your twelfth number, on the absurd story of Noah's Flood, in Genesis vii, I send you the...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20218 min read
Of The Books of the New Testament, Address to the Believers in the Book Called the Scriptures
The New Testament contains twenty-seven books, of which four are called Gospels; one called the Acts of the Apostles; fourteen called the...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 11, 20212 min read
Of The Old and New Testament
Archbishop Tillotson says: "The difference between the style of the Old and New Testament is so very remarkable, that one of the...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 10, 20217 min read
Inquiring Into the Truth or Falsehood of Religion
It has been customary to class history into three divisions, distinguished by the names of Sacred, Profane, and Ecclesiastical. By the...
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Thomas Paine
Jul 10, 20212 min read
Of Cain and Abel
The story of Cain and Abel is told in Genesis iv. Cain was the elder brother, and Abel the younger, and Cain killed Abel. The Egyptian...
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