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The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine
其他書名
Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
出版
Putnams
, 1901
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XIsItAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Thomas Paine was Deist, a believer in God, but highly critical of priests and appeals to the authority of holy books. 'The Age of Reason', written over two hundred years ago, sets out to examine the Christian bible critically and logically, an act of considerable bravery given the power of the Christian Church in those times. The work was outlawed in Great Britain as potentially seditious and liable to upset the social balance of the country, but it became a runaway bestseller in America. Many of Paine's criticisms and analyses remain relevant today and the book has become a classic in the literature of Free Thinking.