Words of wisdom from Thom Paine

GlassHouseResident · 2 months

This is so true. But "Thom"?

ByTheEyeofThundera · 2 months

I love Thomas Paine. The Age of Reason is one of my favourite books.

DRodders · 2 months

Every time I see this quote I think of the ACLS pathway (The algorithm used during resuscitation, where drugs are administered to someone who is 'dead) It doesn't work all the time, but occasionally it does

ryanmich · 2 months

Tom Paine is the fucking man.

spitandimage · 2 months

"TO argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose PHILOSOPHY consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture." What can we all draw from the context of a man whos life was ruined by the rumor that he was atheist?

EvilCuttlefish · 2 months

All I can think of is zombies.

TheLoopOfKarma · 2 months

T-Paine

[deleted] · 2 months

I'm related to him. Pretty sweeeet.

spitandimage · 2 months

knowing who T-Paine is here is important. In the book the Age of Reason he punches holes in a few diferent religions. He was ruined on a professional level by a man who had never read the book and smeared him on the grounds of him being atheist. He wasn't though he was a deist. This just goes to show the intolerance towards atheists in the 1700s. But again he was a deist. and just so you know when pressed Richard Dawkins said "IF there is a God then it must be a deistic God. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUe0_4rdj0U I'm not going to tell you where but it is in there and if you haven't seen this yet Dawkins and Krauss make a pretty badass team.

ubermalark · 2 months

I always see shit given when people quote American founders (or early patriots) out of context to give support to religion. This quote may be true but I do not know and would be silly to up-vote and perpetuate what may be a wrong picture of history that just so happens to line up with the views of the denizens of this subreddit.

It would be great to have a rule that any quote posted on r/atheism must be backed up by a source or deleted. It would cut through a lot of the crap about misrepresentation that is way to often the case.


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