Paine On Religion

596 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: How religion affects political decisions

When you talk about Paine you will know he had no real religion, not a real specific one,very simple no religion too fall back on the government was very unlawful people had no right so Paine had to make people understand what the issue was so it could be solved. Paine thought our nation should secure religion and government should not go into religion. If you look at our nation you will see our nation thinks we have a break up of church and state to keep religion out of the politics but in actuality it is to keep politics out of religion. And I see where Paine came from because I feel that way too because why should the government be apart of religion anyway when the only thing they will try to do is change it. We feared that the government would try to create a national …show more content…

Religion is on an whole other level because it deals with God so it is like I am still trying to get the concept of why the government wants to intervene with the only thing people really still think they would have freedom in. Maybe that is just another way of the government trying to say the people of America will never be truly free because now they are trying to take over religion. Paine pointed to “our living recognition of the never ending Presence” in an heaven whichever makes new and enlarges man’s future for reason and reasoning together for the good based on open law. Paine believed that man is responsible to goddess first and goddess is the main reason of man’s ability to “step off” and refine a logical moral sense in conversation with others. In this feeling, Paine fearlessly fought for general human rights not so much for the direct freedom to do as we wished, but as an expression of goddess, sended back in each person’s natural dignity. As agents of natural rights, we are required to cooperate and reason for the common good of

Show More
Related

  • Religion Gives Meaning To Life By Louis Pojman Analysis

    326 Words  | 1 Pages

    “Religion Gives Meaning to Life” outlines how life is given meaning through theistic religion in Louis Pojman’s opinion. In this short reading, autonomy is described as in the meaning of freedom or self-governing and argues how it is necessary for ideal existence. By being honest and faithful with ourselves shows how we can increase our autonomy. “I think most of us would be willing to give up a few autonotoms for an enormous increase in happiness” (553) shows our willingness to practice good purpose.

    Read More

  • Difference Between Thomas Paine's Common Sense And The Declaration Of Independence

    1888 Words  | 4 Pages

    He states that this is like saying a baby cannot ever have meat because it has thrived on milk for so long, and this is an absurd statement in his opinion. They have felt that the protection of Great Britain has been so good without deliberating that the protection was only for the good of Great Britain, that Great Britain only did so for “interest and protection from her own enemies and on her own account.” He goes on to write that “France and Spain never were, nor perhaps ever will be, our enemies as Americans, but as out being the subjects of Great Britain.” He challenges the reader to think of one advantage of being connected with Great Britain because he cannot think of any. Paine wonders of how we can reconcile or love and honor and faithfully serve, with people who have brought war into their land. Many of the British soldiers had taken over the property of many people in the colonies. This goes back to the responsibility of the government of protecting property.

    Read More

  • Worldviews of Thomas Paine

    1006 Words  | 3 Pages

    People begin to think and form an opinion at an early age. Some of our opinions may be immature at first; however over the years, one’s opinions tend to grow and develop. As people become more mature, we stop listening and following our parent’s beliefs and start to form and follow our own. When one sits, and ponders, questions such as: how did the world come into existence, how long did it take, was it our twenty-four hour six days compared to the time before Christ? Although we may not realize it at the time, we are actually forming our own world-view upon answering these questions. In The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine stands for his own world-view and his belief system. Although I may not agree with everything he stands for, he gives a clear explanation as to why he believes what he does.

    Read More

  • The Constitution Dbq

    687 Words  | 2 Pages

    (doc 6). In the Articles of Confederation the congress wasn’t allowed the power to tax. Congress couldn’t tax people for their own benefits and couldn’t tax exports. The exports helped pay merchants and manufacturers but still left them in debt. In the 16th amendment it states that “ the congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general warfare of the U.S.” Thomas Paine thinks that taxes should be levied enough to where everyone can pay it. He also states that “heaven knows how to put prices upon goods.” *(doc 7) Thomas Paine wanted to advocate independence from Britain to people in the thirteen colonies, one of those things h is advocating in this excerpt is taxes. ( doc 7).

    Read More

  • The Second Amendment: Why It Is Important to Our Country

    802 Words  | 2 Pages

    One reason we must have the second amendment is to protect the freedom for which our country fought so hard to win. The Declaration of Independence states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”[1] However, if these rights were ‘self-evident’, why did the founding fathers need to grant them to the states? We might as well ask why man is the way that he is, imperfect. We all wonder about this sad truth, but the fact remains that man is fallen. These rights are self-evident, obvious to human reason, but because humans are fallen, we are sometimes blinded to these apparent truths and we err in our rationality. King George was blind to these unalienable rights, as were Na...

    Read More

  • Thomas Paine Common Sense Essay

    867 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...ery discussion upon established creeds, and upon first principles of religion, that until the system of government should be changed, those subjects could not be brought fairly and openly before the world; but that whenever this should be done, a revolution in the system of religion would follow.” This reason means that he went to all these churches, and they all preached different things about God. That what they preached they would follow it even if not true.

    Read More

  • Write An Argumentative Essay On Thomas Paine

    807 Words  | 2 Pages

    Whether it is campaigning for an abolitionist movement in the eighteen-hundreds or fighting for women's basic freedoms, they fought for long-term safety and security. One of the first of many examples in the fight for freedom is Thomas Paine and his pamphlet entitled Common Sense. Published in 1776, Paine explains that the people of America must fight against the unfair and unjust ways of the British Parliament. His ideas on independence and freedom created a revolution in American history. Paine not only advocated against the temporary security and restraint forced upon America, but he proposed the ideas of everyday freedoms and an unbreakable sense of security in The American

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of Benjamin Franklin's Letter To Thomas Paine

    883 Words  | 2 Pages

    Paine is known as a sophisticated man of society, so Franklin does not try to sway his opinion with emotions but rather logical points. This appeals to Franklin’s intended audience, which is Paine, by showing he knows how to talk to his audience in a specific way to catch his attention. Franklin describes how Paine’s manuscript “strikes at the foundations of religion” by his perspective on

    Read More

  • Of Myth And Miracle Thomas Paine Summary

    719 Words  | 2 Pages

    However, we know from our other assigned readings that Paine does believe in God, so I take it that Paine is a deist. He believes in God, and that is where it ends. With the knowledge of his personal stance on religion in mind, I think that one can draw that the point of his comments are for one to think for himself in terms of religion, as it is the logical thing to do. An example of why we should think for ourselves is illustrated perfectly by Paine's point on the word "revelation." "Revelation, when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man . . . It is a revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other; and, consequently, they are not obliged to believe it" (352). The so called revelations people believe in could be totally false, but they believe them anyway because they are told that it is what is "right." I think that this is dangerous and that it breeds ignorance. An example that I see daily of this problem is when someone raises their children in church; I am thinking of Christianity, specifically. Let us say your grandparents are Christians, so they raise your mom in church. From the time she is a small child she is ingrained with the teachings of the Bible. In turn, she marries a man with these same beliefs, they have you, and then you are raised in a church and ingrained with the same beliefs as your

    Read More

  • Albert Camus and his Idea of Religion

    1197 Words  | 3 Pages

    Albert Camus was an existentialist. He was also not a religious person and even though he was born and raised a Catholic; he soon quit his religious faith and turned into an atheist, believing that religion was “philosophical suicide”. He described his attitude toward religion in the lines “I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.” Yet, it is seen that even though he denied being an existentialist, he is seen to have ‘brooded over such questions as the meaning of life in the face of death.’ “Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.” This quote shows that Camus believed death was what created people in society and brought their life into the spotlight.

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast Thomas Paine, And Ralph Waldo Emerson

    697 Words  | 2 Pages

    Thomas Paine left his native home, England at the age of thirty-seven and spent most of his life built off the British. Through his life and works he exemplified that he was a controversialist. The writings Paine wrote were provoked controversy, all being his intention. In his writing, Common Sense, Paine paints a picture to show the difference between society and government. In his writings, Thomas Paine notes, “Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices” (Philip 1). His point of view relates to the theme Government, in which he explains why simple government is the best government, which is Republican government. Paine, just as Roger Williams, also strongly believed that the separation of church and state was important, trusting that government should be built on purpose, not faith. He thought that the only effective role of government in religious matters was to defend freedom of religion. In Paine’s book Rights of Man, he describes how Rights are not well-preserved from the state of nature in the civil state and Men cannot appreciate the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together; That he may protect some liberty, he makes a submission in trust of the whole of it. Philips states how, “It seems more likely, however, that Paine's distinction between natural rights, where we necessarily have the power to execute the right (as in the right of conscience), as against rights where we need the arm of society to secure the right (as in property), although more sharply expressed in Rights of Man” (1). Paine saw that the rights that were granted to us give us the power to execute those rights. Thomas Paine shows a wide interest in how the American government relates to

    Read More

  • Christopher Hitchens On Religion

    278 Words  | 1 Pages

    Christopher Hitchens’s argued that religion is not at all moral and individuals have the ability to be good without the influence of religious backing. Hitchens believes that all religion allows for the ignorance of the observable truth in favor for the indulgent of wishful thinking. That people are allowed to do immoral actions while being forgiven through the sacrifice on another human scapegoat and that anyone who was born after the event must bear partial responsibility for a sacrifice that they would not have agreed to. Hitchens also believe that people have the capability to be good without religion due to how divine permission leads man to actions unheard of. Circumcision and war are widely accepted as morally wrong, and yet due to rights

    Read More

  • Functionalism And Religion Essay

    1620 Words  | 4 Pages

    Functionalists believe religion is a conservative force that performs positive functions of promoting social integration and social solidarity through the reinforcement of value consensus. In this essay I will draw on ideas from Durkheim, Malinowski, Parsons and Bellah. I will then evaluate these theorists with Marxist, feminist and postmodernist perspectives in order to assess the extent functionalism helps us to understand religion today.

    Read More

  • Francis Arinze: Religion Is One Dimensions Of Culture

    515 Words  | 2 Pages

    In my essay, I plan to discuss religion and culture's strong connection. For instance, the caste

    Read More

  • A Critical Analysis of John Stuart Mill’s "On Liberty"

    1403 Words  | 3 Pages

    An individual does not make a community, and a community does not make a society. In order to have a functioning and prosperous society, one must relinquish some free will in return for protection. According to John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, there are certain rights of the individual which the government may never possess. Centuries after the publication of Mill’s Essay, the court case Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegeta l, 546 U.S. 418 (2006) challenged the protective role of government against the free exercise of religion.

    Read More

More about Paine On Religion

Open Document