To: Salamander
Paine unreservedly supported the terror of the French revolution. You can cherry pick his writing to make it say what you want. He was roundly hated later in life. No one came to his funeral
To: CharlesOConnell
I can only suspect that you intended that post for someone else as I did not mention Paine, at all.
8 posted on
09/30/2021 3:39:42 AM PDT by
Salamander
("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
9 posted on
09/30/2021 4:59:17 AM PDT by
mykroar
(God speed, President Trump)
To: CharlesOConnell
Paine's status took a turn for the worse after he wrote
The Age of Reason, which was seen as an attack on the Christian church of the time. That's when he fell out of favor with his former Founding Father associates.
-PJ
11 posted on
10/01/2021 2:00:15 AM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
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