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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

And I suppose you understand what Thomas Paine meant when he said “the word of God”. Deists at the time belived in natural law given to us by God by observing nature and not hearsay revealations from the Bible.

As Paine said in The Age of Reason

“ The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.”

Thomas Paine


50 posted on 09/13/2015 9:38:04 AM PDT by Okieshooter
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To: Okieshooter

First, you are defining something Paine wrote in 1775 by something he wrote in 1794, 1795, and 1807. That is not the way to honestly interpret anything. Common Sense was a pamphlet that was very influential. How was it understood by those it influenced? His later views were hostile to the idea of miracles, a need to confess sin to priests and hostility toward the Church of England. It was not a rejection of the Ten Commandments, which he saw as part of natural law.

Why are those symbols of Moses and the 10 Commandments at the Supreme Court? Why the other law givers? It was not seen as imposing religion at that time. It should not be taken that way now.

Clearly displaying the Ten Commandments has brought you no faith. No religion. You are not in jail for your atheism. What law do you violate by seeing a monument?


52 posted on 09/13/2015 1:28:05 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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