For many years Thomas Paine was the epitome of American histories greatest drawback. On January 29, 1737, Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England. Thomas Paine was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary , and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Thomas Paine became very important because he published Common Sense, a strong defense of American Independence from England. By 1793, he was imprisoned in France for not endorsing the execution of Louis XVI. During his imprisonment, he wrote and distributed the first part of what was to become his most famous work at the time, the anti-church text, The Age of Reason (1794-96). Moreover, Paine discovered that his contributions to the American Revolution had been all but eradicated due to his religious views. He also had a grand vision for society; he was staunchly anti-slavery, and he was one of the first to advocate a world peace organization and social security for the poor and elderly.
Some people had a radical view on religion either bad or good. In the article “My Problem with Christianism”, the author offers his views as a believer on the use of Christianity in U.S. politics. He feels misrepresented by the religious right in America especially when its discourse about faith was dominated by political fundamentalists and social conservatives. He also states that many devout Christians were socially liberal on issues like contraception, gay rights, and women's equality. In the article “My Problem with Christianism”, it states that there are evangelical Protestants who believe strongly that Christianity should not get too close to the corrupting allure of government power” because Christianity could influence the government to use religion as a basis extermination and over use their power to govern the people. According to Andrew Sullivan, “it is the belief that religion dictates politics and that politics should dictate the laws for everyone, Christian and non-Christian alike.” The idea was significant and true because government was not only for one party, but it was also made for all the people because all of us were the one who created and formed the government. Thus, government should distribute the services to everyone equally.
It was very surprising to think about that in this world some people hated Christianity and Religion. In some cases there were some negative effects that Christianity brought to our civilization. Some people said that because of religion, more human beings have been murdered, tortured, maimed, denigrated, discriminated against, humiliated, hated and scorned than for any other reason in the totality of the history of man. In addition, because of the teaching of the belief in unseen God, whereas people up to now were relying on themselves and their works as their source of life, while Christianity were teaching people to trust the Bible and God and not to work as dictated by the government, that is why there were certain rules that were being observed by our government to make it fair with religions that they needed to make church and state be divided. Lastly, we could not blame Paine if why he did not believe and trust the Bible because we did not have the proof to show him that all those words in the Bible were “the words of God” and the path to have a better life and stop slavery.
"Thomas Paine." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 06 Oct. 2009 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/438489/Thomas-Paine>.
Sullivan, Andrew "My Problem with Christianism." 74. Time Inc., 2006. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 5 Oct. 2009..
Some people had a radical view on religion either bad or good. In the article “My Problem with Christianism”, the author offers his views as a believer on the use of Christianity in U.S. politics. He feels misrepresented by the religious right in America especially when its discourse about faith was dominated by political fundamentalists and social conservatives. He also states that many devout Christians were socially liberal on issues like contraception, gay rights, and women's equality. In the article “My Problem with Christianism”, it states that there are evangelical Protestants who believe strongly that Christianity should not get too close to the corrupting allure of government power” because Christianity could influence the government to use religion as a basis extermination and over use their power to govern the people. According to Andrew Sullivan, “it is the belief that religion dictates politics and that politics should dictate the laws for everyone, Christian and non-Christian alike.” The idea was significant and true because government was not only for one party, but it was also made for all the people because all of us were the one who created and formed the government. Thus, government should distribute the services to everyone equally.
It was very surprising to think about that in this world some people hated Christianity and Religion. In some cases there were some negative effects that Christianity brought to our civilization. Some people said that because of religion, more human beings have been murdered, tortured, maimed, denigrated, discriminated against, humiliated, hated and scorned than for any other reason in the totality of the history of man. In addition, because of the teaching of the belief in unseen God, whereas people up to now were relying on themselves and their works as their source of life, while Christianity were teaching people to trust the Bible and God and not to work as dictated by the government, that is why there were certain rules that were being observed by our government to make it fair with religions that they needed to make church and state be divided. Lastly, we could not blame Paine if why he did not believe and trust the Bible because we did not have the proof to show him that all those words in the Bible were “the words of God” and the path to have a better life and stop slavery.
"Thomas Paine." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 06 Oct. 2009 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/438489/Thomas-Paine>.
Sullivan, Andrew "My Problem with Christianism." 74. Time Inc., 2006. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 5 Oct. 2009.
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