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Title: Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, Philip Sheldon Foner ISBN: 0-8065-0549-4 Publisher: Lyle Stuart Hardcover Pub. Date: November, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.34 (76 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The freethinkers will always outweigh the Religious ...
Comment: This is the best book on freethinking that has walked the face of the earth. Many religious people say his arguments can be figured out by a three year old. Well, I have a rebuttal: Do we need to read the bible to know we shouldn't kill others? The more ironic thing, is that the religious conservatives know they have they basis for their claims, and when someone uses facts to prove them wrong, they can't handle it.
Paine points out that the Catholic religion was more cruel than the Greek religions. The reason is because in Greek times, religious people welcomed philsophers and scientists. In the days of Christianity, the free thinkers and scientists were burned at the stake. The Age of Reason means you think outside of oppressive thinking, which generally happens to be religion. Sorry, that's a fact and you can read history to see that more people have had their lives and freedom taken away in the name of God than anything else. It still goes on today.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best promulgation of Deism ever
Comment: Paine, the man who coined the words "United States of America" and another of the USA's non-Christian founding fathers, has written what is easily the best book about deism, period. I personally do not accept the arguments from either design or the anthropic principle, so I am not a deist (luckily, you won't find nasty words like "anthropic" in this book, just some outdated English).
But what this book does for biblical criticism is wonderful. Paine burns the "Good News" to ashes with his wit and brilliant prose. This book, although it would clearly violate the separation of church and state to have it read in schools, should nevertheless be read by young people (I read it when I was 18) who are interested in religion. Paine honestly looks at the bible, and finds it (correctly) to be a pack of lies.
I won't quote from the book, but I can say that what you read in it will never be used by the religious right when they spout their drivel about our's being a Christian nation.
We are lucky to have had an American as bold as Thomas Paine to write the truth about religion, I only wish there were people like that today.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: This is a wonderful book. I wish I would have read it earlier in my life. In the Age of Reason Paine is trying to free human thought from the bondage of Organized religion's scare tactics and superstition. Think what the world would be like today if we were Deist and quit arguing and killing over religous text. Paine's arguments are well organized and easy to read. I also believe this book should be taught in schools. I strongly recommend this book.
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Title: Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine, Sydney Hook ISBN: 0452009219 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine ISBN: 0486408930 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 23 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $3.00 |
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Title: Common Sense by Thomas Paine ISBN: 0486296024 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 22 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith ISBN: 087975124X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: June, 1980 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Acharya S ISBN: 0932813747 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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