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Piercing analysis of religion that continues to influence religious thinking to this day.
| Part I. | ||
| Title-Page to the Original Paris Edition | v | |
| Dedication | vii | |
| Editor's Introduction | 1 | |
| Chapter I. | The Author's Profession of Faith | 21 |
| Chapter II. | Of Missions and Revelations | 23 |
| Chapter III. | Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History | 26 |
| Chapter IV. | Of the Bases of Christianity | 28 |
| Chapter V. | Examination in Detail of the Preceding Bases | 30 |
| Chapter VI. | Of the True Theology | 31 |
| Chapter VII. | Examination of the Old Testament | 32 |
| Chapter VIII. | Of the New Testament | 38 |
| Chapter IX. | In What the True Revelation Consists | 45 |
| Chapter X. | Concerning God, and the Lights Cast on his Existence and Attributes by the Bible | 47 |
| Chapter XI. | Of the Theology of the Christians; and the True Theology | 50 |
| Chapter XII. | The Effects of Christianism on Education. Proposed Reforms | 55 |
| Chapter XIII. | Comparison of Christianism with the Religious Ideas Inspired by Nature | 62 |
| Chapter XIV. | System of the Universe | 68 |
| Chapter XV. | Advantages of the Existence of Many Worlds in Each Solar System | 72 |
| Chapter XVI. | Application of the Preceding to the System of the Christians | 73 |
| Chapter XVII. | Of the Means Employed in All Time, and Almost Universally, to Deceive the People | 75 |
| Recapitulation | 83 | |
| Part II. | ||
| Preface | 85 | |
| Chapter I. | The Old Testament | 89 |
| Chapter II. | The New Testament | 152 |
| Chapter III. | Conclusion | 183 |
| Letters Concerning "The Age of Reason" | 196 |
Anonymous
Posted August 24, 2001
Thomas Paine did a terrific job on letting people know the truth about God. Christianity and organized religions are nothing but concoctions and systems that draw from cults and pagan religions that went on at the time. Paine offers irrefutable arguments against the veracity of the Bible on ethical, chronological, and historical premises. This is the ultimate test any Christian should take to challenge their faith: read this book. It's not just about dismantling obsolete and flawed theology--it's about becoming more ethical and evolved. I wholeheartedly recommend and endorse this book.
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Posted March 26, 2000
This book is a classic; it is the best critical analysis of Christianity and other organized religions I have read. Anyone contemplating a career as priest, preacher, rabbi or other practitioner of the 'pious fraud' (Paine's term) should read this book because he or she should have answers to Paine's argument before spending (or wasting)a life proclaimig mythology as truth.
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Posted January 19, 2012
This book, like all of Thomas Paine's work, is wonderful. However, the quality of this e book is just disappointing. It is full of gibberish, the gibberish being horribly translated words and sentences. A few words are easy to make out, but I found much of what I read very difficult to understand, since it was random letters and sometimes even numbers forming "words".
Again, great book, bad translation. Still worth it since it is free!
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Posted July 28, 2011
This piece of crap has every appearance of having been optically scanned with a bad text recognition program. It is so badly compiled that it cannot be read. Not compatible with Nook.
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Posted June 17, 2011
He speaks the truth. Love it.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.If your pious, read it. Don't worry nothing can shake the need to believe. If your not pious, its a treat to read! Such a great book for the time period. Regardless of your belief system, I highly recommend it.
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Posted October 27, 2006
Egocentricity is the main reason people choose a religion for. The love of saying I am the one who is right, in case of religion, always right. Age of Reason is a book that tells the reader to simply use his/her brain and make use of the bliss of logic. How come we always accept ideas without examining them? Were we taught at schools to accept things just like that? Then why do we do so with religion? Why do we refuse aliens or some supernatural phenomena but then accept religion? Why do we dare to defy our parents in almost anything but when it comes to religion we just, at least the majority of us, obey?! Religion is truly the opium of the masses. Read Thomas Pain, the man has something to say in this book...
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Posted November 30, 2003
I haven't read the whole book yet but it has brought up very good arguments so far. I also have researched Thomas Paine and the reason i wanted to read this is because he spent the remainder of his life (falloween the publishing) in poverty becuase of the arguments in this book. No one would excepted them so he was outcast. This book is definetly revolutional.
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Posted September 13, 2003
The harmful effects organized religion has had on the world may be obvious to us in hindsight, but Paine was able to point them out at a time when the churches still had absoulute power over the world, and for this the world owes him an enormous debt of gratitude.
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Posted January 14, 2000
In this outstanding book, Thomas Paine lets the reader know that you do not have to limit yourself to either Christianity and the other various 'revealed' religions or to atheism. You become aware that a great alternative to both is the natural religion/spiritual philosophy of Deism! Paine exposes the Bible for what it is - the ranting and ravings of superstitious fanatics. He shows how the Bible portrays God as a jealous, violent idiot! It's very shocking at first. Then you realize what you've been fed all these years! Reading THE AGE OF REASON is very spiritually liberating. It's not for the religious, but it is for the spiritual! I'm proud to say that I'm a Deist and belong to the World Union of Deists, thanks to Mr. Paine's great book! Robert L. Johnson
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Posted December 24, 1999
Anti-Christian is not the same as anti-God, as Thomas Paine clearly defines. The first is Institutional and supremely demanding, the other (Deism) is one's belief in a personal God based on reason, not tyranny. Although I rated this book five stars, I believe the author ignores perhaps the most important aspect of the Bible, its symbolism. One needs to read Isaiah, Book II to tune into the meaning of those symbols and to more honestly interpret the miracles suppossedly performed. But except for this, the book is a primer for any honest student of Christianity, or other religious belief, all of which are blueprints for values and norms the purpose of which is to make any community functional. Kosovo and the Serbian attempt at ethnic cleansing is but one of several current examples of what religion can do. History is rife with other extreme examples.
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"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst," declared Thomas Paine, adding, "every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity." Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with his final work, The Age of Reason. This coolly reasoned polemic influenced religious thinking throughout the world at the dawn of the nineteenth century, and its resonance remains undiminished by time. The selfsame humanist and egalitarian views that made Paine a popular figure of the American Revolution brought him into frequent conflict with political authorities. Parts of ...