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A review by dashausfrau
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
4.0
"The setters up, therefore, and the advocates of the Christian system of faith, could not but foresee that the continually progressive knowledge that man would gain by the aid of science, of the power and wisdom of God, manifested in the structure of the universe, and in all the works of creation, would militate against, and call into question, the truth of their system of faith; and therefore it became necessary to their purpose to cut learning down to a size less dangerous to their project, and this they effected by restricting the idea of learning to the dead study of dead languages."
How do you rate Thomas Paine? I listened to the first part of this book on audio. The reader sounded maybe even more pompous than Mister Paine might have been, but how can you help being condescending in a world where the average person doesn't have any education to speak of & you yourself are riding the wave of the birth of democracy?
Even so, more religious conservatives should read. Old Time Religion was not necessarily what they pictured at all.
How do you rate Thomas Paine? I listened to the first part of this book on audio. The reader sounded maybe even more pompous than Mister Paine might have been, but how can you help being condescending in a world where the average person doesn't have any education to speak of & you yourself are riding the wave of the birth of democracy?
Even so, more religious conservatives should read. Old Time Religion was not necessarily what they pictured at all.