Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading: The Age of Reason (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) (Paperback)

from lunaverse

This classic book was hugely controversial in its time. Deism (the concept that there is a God, but no one knows anything about him) existed before this book, but this was the first layman's introduction to the philosophy. Thomas Paine, author of the historically important "Common Sense", endured...

from Atomicmutant

This book is a revelation (irony intended). Having read about Paine, his participation in the birth of the United States, and his incarceration at the hands of the French Revolutionaries, I had a fair idea of his theses and the strength of his Deistic convictions. Having known that, the clarity a...

from datrappert

Just re-read this on my Kindle after first reading it perhaps 25 years ago. It is still a wonderfully persuasive demolition of any shred of veracity that the Bible might cling to. The first part, where Paine is working without the aid of a Bible on hand, is a bit general, but shows his impeccable...

from CarlaR

Thomas Paine was a most thoughtful and insightful man. He points out the fallacies in religion to make a good argument for freethought. These issues have been argued for many years and continue to be argued today. I find that "The Age of Reason" is a good foundation for most theological coversati...

from scottcholstad

One of the best books I've EVER read, and to think it was written in the eighteenth century, because rarely has a book so easily dismantled orthodox Christianity as this one does, and Paine is quite convincing while relying solely on the Bible itself, largely in Part 2 especially, to see to its o...