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The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To Which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar (Classic Reprint)
The Theological Works of Thomas Paine To Which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar - Classic Reprint Author:Thomas Paine THE AGE OF REASON. PART THE FIRST. BEING AN !l'YESTlGATIO;O OF TRUE AND FARULOUS THEOLOGY. I T has becn my intention, for se'eral years past, to pubhsh my thoughts upon religion; I am well aware of the difficulties that attend the subject, and from that consideration, had reseryed it to n more advanced period of life. I intended it to be the las... more »t offering I should make to my fellow-citizens of all nations, and that at a time ,vhen thc purity of the motive that induced me to it, could not admit of a question, eyen by those who might disapprove the work. The circumstance that has now taken place in France of th~ total abolition of the whole national order of priesthood, and of every thing appcrtaining to compulsive systems of religion, and compulsive articles of f.'lith"has not only precipitated my intention, but rendered a work of this kind exceedingly necessary, lest, in the general "Teck of superstition, of f.'l.lse systems of government, and false theol
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