…the Creation we behold is the real and ever existing word of God, in which we cannot be deceived. It proclaimeth his power, it demonstrates his wisdom, it manifests his goodness and beneficence
Completing the message from last week, wondering what Paine might have thought, given his deist tendancies, had he been forturnate enough to visit [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
On Visiting Yosemite Valley
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
On John Muir’s Legacy
Monday, October 9, 2006
Okay, obviously Tom Paine wouldn’t have commented on the legacy of John Muir, since Muir lived about a century after Paine.
We can’t help but wonder what Paine would have thought if he had had the opportunity to visit the American west. Places like Yosemite, where the editor of ThomasPaineBlogging will be spending the next week.
Paine [...]
On What Makes People Tick
Thursday, October 5, 2006
“Reason and Ignorance, the opposite of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind.”
And which is the most influential, reason or ignorance, as an open debate. Or perhpas I am just being ignorant.
thomas paine rights of man reason ignorance
On Faith and Politics
Monday, October 2, 2006
“It is certain that, in one point, all nations of the earth and all religions agree . All believe in a God, the things in which they disagree are the redundancies annexed to that belief; and therefore , if ever an universal religion should prevail, it will not be believing in any thing new, but [...]