Reading Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby right now. I started to read Paine's Age of Reason becuase of Jacoby's discussion of it. I read Common Sense a long time ago, but haven't read more than excerpts of Paine's work between then and now.
Tom Paine was a bad ass, a great thinker, a great writer, and an amazing example to people of conscience who aren't religious. Of course, if he were alive today, he's never last a minute under the guns of the religious fanatics who run this country, which is pretty sad. Two hundred plus years of the American experiment, and we are less tolerant today than we were in the late 18th century.
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