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A Great Perspective on Religion and Moralityby Anonymous
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Thomas Paine did a terrific job on letting people know the truth about God. Christianity and organized religions are nothing but concoctions and systems that draw from cults and pagan religions that went on at the time. Paine offers irrefutable arguments against the veracity of the Bible on ethical, chronological, and historical premises. This is the ultimate test any Christian should take to challenge...
Un readable!!by JFJ99
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This piece of crap has every appearance of having been optically scanned with a bad text recognition program. It is so badly compiled that it cannot be read. Not compatible with Nook.
Can't go wrong with this one.by divideByZero
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If your pious, read it. Don't worry nothing can shake the need to believe. If your not pious, its a treat to read! Such a great book for the time period. Regardless of your belief system, I highly recommend it.
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The Age of Reason
Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2004
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Sales Rank: 121,393
Synopsis
Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work. An attack on revealed religion from the deist point of view — embodied by Paine's credo, "I believe in one God, and no more" — its critical and objective examination of Old and New Testaments cites numerous contradictions.
Biography
Kerry Walters is Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. He has published numerous books on Christianity, and particularly on religion in early America.
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The Age of Reason
Table of Contents
| Part I. |
| Title-Page to the Original Paris Edition | v |
| Dedication | vii |
| Editor's Introduction | 1 |
| Chapter I. | The Author's Profession of Faith | 21 |
| Chapter II. | Of Missions and Revelations | 23 |
| Chapter III. | Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History | 26 |
| Chapter IV. | Of the Bases of Christianity | 28 |
| Chapter V. | Examination in Detail of the Preceding Bases | 30 |
| Chapter VI. | Of the True Theology | 31 |
| Chapter VII. | Examination of the Old Testament | 32 |
| Chapter VIII. | Of the New Testament | 38 |
| Chapter IX. | In What the True Revelation Consists | 45 |
| Chapter X. | Concerning God, and the Lights Cast on his Existence and Attributes by the Bible | 47 |
| Chapter XI. | Of the Theology of the Christians; and the True Theology | 50 |
| Chapter XII. | The Effects of Christianism on Education. Proposed Reforms | 55 |
| Chapter XIII. | Comparison of Christianism with the Religious Ideas Inspired by Nature | 62 |
| Chapter XIV. | System of the Universe | 68 |
| Chapter XV. | Advantages of the Existence of Many Worlds in Each Solar System | 72 |
| Chapter XVI. | Application of the Preceding to the System of the Christians | 73 |
| Chapter XVII. | Of the Means Employed in All Time, and Almost Universally, to Deceive the People | 75 |
| Recapitulation | 83 |
| Part II. |
| Preface | 85 |
| Chapter I. | The Old Testament | 89 |
| Chapter II. | The New Testament | 152 |
| Chapter III. | Conclusion | 183 |
| Letters Concerning "The Age of Reason" | 196 |
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