— Thomas Paine - English-born American author and revolutionary leader.  Theodore Roosevelt called him a “filthy little atheist.”  Actually a deist; wrote the definitive text of deism, The Age of Reason, which used reason to establish a belief in Nature’s Designer, but attacked Christianity as a system of superstition that “produces fanatics” and “serves the purposes of despotism.”  In England, sellers of the book were jailed for blasphemy.  In dating his letters, instead of “A.D.,” wrote “since the fable of Christ.” (via helvetebrann)

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   HOLY CRAP this was in APUSH

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    Oh my god what a horrid interpretation of Jesus

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