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In college we are taught that one of the founders of American Revolution, Thomas Paine, was a deist. Indeed, he was. What the professors did not tell us was that Paine’s masterpiece, ” Common Sense ” — the pamphlet that persuaded the American people to move from merely seeking some redress of grievance from the British government to flat out seeking independence — made almost all of its arguments from the Bible.
Paine knew that the American people were the most biblically literate people in the world at that time. Arguably, they were the most biblically literate generation of all history. They were not going to be moved to a war of independence from the reasonings of Enlightenment thinkers. The appeal had to come from Holy Writ, or it would not come at all.
In a masterful polemic, after citing passages in Scripture about the fallacy of monarchy, Paine sums it all up with this: These portions of scripture are direct and positive. They admit of no equivocal construction. That the Almighty hath here entered his protest against monarchical government is true, or the scripture is false. And a man hath good reason to believe that there is as much of kingcraft as priestcraft in withholding the scripture from the public in popish countries. For monarchy in every instance is the popery of government. Paine had used Scripture to show that monarchy is idolatrous.
The Revolution was on.
Within a year, the Declaration of Independence would be signed. Thomas Jefferson would later write that the Declaration “placed before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent.”
It was an allusion to Paine’s pamphlet.
However, it was not just a rejection of monarchy. Paine’s pamphlet even used Scripture to decide the form of government that men should have. Near three thousand years passed away, from the Mosaic account of the creation, till the Jews under a national delusion requested a king. Till then their form of government (except in extraordinary cases where the Almighty interposed) was a kind of Republic, administered by a judge and the […]
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We Often Feel Like David Taking on Giants
Today’s Goliath is the Mainstream Media Industrial Complex that brainwashes the masses.
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