These Masons and Freethinkers like Ethan Allen ridiculed the Church of England while resenting every penny taxed for clergy or pews....Paine wrote Age of Reason THE 3RD PART facing the guillotine in France fighting for LIBERTE' ....COMPLETELY REPUDIATING bible claims lies and insane dreams of John. ..he intended that brief book to be his epitaph defending the watchmaker creator against xian incompetent lies

The readers who are interested in American political system with enjoy this piece. My fav is Tom: "But Thomas Paine made no qualms about his radical Deism; calling the bible the “pretended word of God”. And we know he’s read it because he tears it a new one book by book in his writing The Age of Reason."