A review by rabbithero
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

3.0

It feels to check a book off my to read list, especially one that has not it from the get-go. Nevertheless, a bit of a redundant work, the same language used repeatedly to accentuate similar points over and over and over. Lots of these ideas are old hat to me (I hear a lot of the atheists in my life regurgitate it, although in their cases with more unwelcome vitriol), and so not particularly insightful. Still, Paine's observations on prophecy and poetry are not only interesting, but exciting and useful.