Thomas Paine · Politics
The pamphleteer who attacked kings turned last on the churches - defending belief in God by reason alone while subjecting scripture to fearless criticism, a book that made him a hero to freethinkers and an outcast to the pious.
You learned that Paine defended belief in one God while rejecting organized religion and revealed scripture. In your own words, what did he mean by ‘my own mind is my own church’?
Leads to Voltaire.
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