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Age Reason Famous Work Thomas Paine Written Imprisonment

Front the Age of Reason
Back the most famous work by Thomas Paine
written during his imprisonment in Paris and published in 1794-6
showing Paine's inclination towards deism, it make a stark critique of accepted religious belief and practices
first part; argues that a rational knowledge of God does not accord with traditional conception of the Deity
second illumination; various inconsistencies in the Bible in order to invalidate both literal and figurative readings of the text

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