Thomas Paine Questions And Answers

Paine Questions:
Why does Paine think it is in America's best interest to be free from Britain?
In Paine’s view, he envisioned a country where everyone had equal rights. Contrary to beliefs at the time, Paine was not obsessed with blaming the king for the travesties occurring in the colonies, rather he believed that the king was a tyrant himself. Paine believed that the rights of all people should be ensured and slavery should be abolished. Being born in England himself, the revolution was not so much about patriotism, rather a greater role in freedom and liberty.

2. How do you think a loyalist would react to Paine’s arguments?
A loyalist would react to Thomas Paine’s argument by making the counterpoint that the British royal ruling

system had worked for hundreds of years prior. Even in times of great hardship, loyal British citizens would believe in their king and rally behind him in times of crisis. A loyalist would seek to repair the problems that exist, rather than try to create their own system.

3. Discuss Paine’s view of the connection between religion and government.
Thomas Paine believed in starch conviction that believed that our nation should protect the freedom and purity of religion. He thought that the government should stay out of religion, not necessarily the other way around. The separation of church and state was more intended not to keep religion out of politics but to instead leave politics out of religion. Paine feared that the government would enforce a national religion much like England had at the time.

He thought our nation should protect religion and GOVERNMENT (read carefully) SHOULD NOT GO INTO RELIGION. See our nation thinks we have separation of church and state to keep religion out of politics but in reality it's to keep politics out of religion. We fear the Government would create a national religion as England did. Thomas talks about this saying the Government needs to stay out of religion.