Thomas Paine: A Dirty Little Atheist

Thomas Paine was once called “A Dirty Little Atheist” by Theodore Roosevelt. While this may be the thought of many, Thomas Paine’s belief system should be allowed until reasonable proof is given of the system’s failure. The Christian worldview, Minus Chaotic, Mormon, and Other Christian cults, offers up multiple points to refute the theories of Thomas Paine.

The fact that all scripture comes from the divine becomes the foundation of whether or not the entire religion will stand in the minds of rational people. Thomas Paine sees that there shall not be a revelation, apart from nature, from the divine to humans. His logic follows when he says that the Bible should not be taken as fact because it was not the Sovereign who wrote the book or

even His parents. On the other hand, Paine says that the resurrection could not have happened, because God himself wrote it not, but someone who was there while Jesus was in His resurrected form wrote the gospels in order to convey it for Him. Another way that the sovereignty of the gospel presents itself comes from the historical accuracy of the bible. Evidence proving that almost all of the events that happened in the old testament happened.
Thomas Paine believes that all the religious saviors masquerade a false hope to those who decide to put their faith in the “False” savior.

“Saviors must partake in the fall of Man, because they were born of man” becomes the logical, yet false, thought process that proceeds the type of thinking that forced its way into the subconscious of Thomas Paine. This logic becomes fallible, however, when the subject in question, in this case all divine Saviors, comes from the Divine nature. Jesus, for example, died, berried, and the Father resurrected him on the third day. For this to be the case Jesus must be of the divine

nature.
Thomas Paine presents a point that presents a failure in his own logic.

He states that only Psalms and Job present any revelation from God, but He also states that God would not give revelation in any form besides nature. In this, Thomas Paine presents absolute lack of any logic, because if no revelation in book form comes from God, then Psalms and job should also be wrong if his logic were to be correct. Another fault in logic presents itself when Paine states that God must be present in only one person. His logic is faulty here because the Christians say this as well and one of the reasons that he does not follow the Christian doctrine is because he does not believe any of it is true. This point shows that he believes at least a fraction of the Christian doctrine.

On the point of logic, the title of the paper lacks in logic, because what he means by The Age of Reason is that people took other people’s belief systems as their own and no one should mess with that. Where the fallacy comes into play is when he attacks the reality of Christianity’s God and book of belief, the bible, with what he sees to be true. The other way he disproves his own title is when he insults the Americans for being closed minded. With all the

contradictions
in his paper most people would through it out as utter nonsense, despite this he has managed to stay in the minds of millions.
Although the two different worldview conflict with each other, the two agree on a few items of debate. Both of the sides agree on the fact that God exists and He that he exists as one person. They also agree on the fact that God gave us a Revelation through nature so that all men may become believers. The third and final fact that both systems agree on is that God created the universe from nothing and that God has control of everything and everyone. Besides these few facts the two sides disagree from the other and try to prove to the other one that what one side believes is wrong and the other side is right.
Thomas Paine belief system was made up of what he went through in life and what was poured into him while he was in France. After having his mother die in childbirth and a nonexistent father, it is to be expected for this to be the person’s train of thought. Although he was not too fond of Americans most modern age societies owe him much of their thought process, because they use the same logic of I have what I think and you have what you think.