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Sorry guy, Paine was a Naturalist...

Paine demonstrates the absurdity of a word of God existing in print. As a Deist, Paine believed that the true word of God is nature....

"To understand the nature and quantity of government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character. As Nature created him for social life, she fitted him for the station she intended. In all cases she made his natural wants greater than his individual powers. No one man is capable, without the aid of society, of supplying his own wants, and those wants, acting upon every individual, impel the whole of them into society, as naturally as gravitation acts to a centre.

But she has gone further. She has not only forced man into society by a diversity of wants which the reciprocal aid of each other can supply, but she has implanted in him a system of social affections, which, though not necessary to his existence, are essential to his happiness. There is no period in life when this love for society ceases to act. It begins and ends with our being."

HEY everybody! I live in Virginia, and I'm on this thread to find out about the latest shooting! I'm sick of having to go through 20 or more off-topic posts to try to find out what the h3ll's going on!

If you want to talk about unrelated BS like whether or not Paine was a naturalist or a deist, or share your grandma's chocolate chip cookie recipes, or whatever, then please go somewhere else!

You're hopeless. Whether Paine was a deist or danced naked in the moonlight while howing at the stars, it doesn't matter, he understood that rights were granted by a higher authority than men. You don't have a clue.