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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Tom Paine was an extremist wacko, by the way. Totalitarian secular humanism is not part of the conservative tradition. Nor is it mandated by the U.S. Constitution. Paine's Jacobinism died a deserving death in the gallows of 18th-century France. No serious man romanticizes that or venerates its memory.

One of the best summaries of Tom Paine and his philosophy I've ever seen.

Good work.

52 posted on 07/17/2004 3:13:16 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
"Keep it pithy." Succinct yet thorough.

Maybe there is an essay here:
"Tom Paine and His Minions: An Autopsy."

53 posted on 07/17/2004 3:16:59 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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