Christian Founded vs White Founded

[El_Spectre]

5. wearing frilly shirts
6. caprisphiles
7. named Prince and I am funky
8. gonna rock you like a hurricane

9. Horny

 

[Lonewulf]

I used to think Paine was atheist. Someone made me reconsider so that now I think it possible he was deist. I don't know, though, and am not well enough informed to debate it.

Believe me, he was Deist. He's pretty clear on that in Age of Reason.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

I believe the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

But, lest it should be supposed that I believe many other things in addition to these, I shall, in the progress of this work, declare the things I do not believe, and my reasons for not believing them.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_paine/age_of_reason/part1.html#1

 

[Garrette]

Believe me, he was Deist. He's pretty clear on that in Age of Reason.



http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_paine/age_of_reason/part1.html#1

Thanks. I even have "Age of Reason." Just haven't read it in a long while. Some day I will develop perfect memory.

 

[Lonewulf]

Thanks. I even have "Age of Reason." Just haven't read it in a long while. Some day I will develop perfect memory.

It's a beautiful read. Thomas Paine is one of my few heroes.

 

[Charlie Monoxide]

Today's (Fri Oct 5th) Point of Inquiry has an interview (http://www.pointofinquiry.org/) with Alan Dershowitz talking about this point. It is another great interview from POI and will answer the questions posed on this thread.

Charlie (TGI POI podcast night) Monoxide

 

[h0mesch00led]

i checked it out, it was pretty interesting.. some good points were made