Sunday, March 27, 2011

Thomas Paine on Natural Religion

"It is only in the creation that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The creation speaketh a universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they may be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not: it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God." Thomas Paine, Age of Reason, Pt. 1, 1794
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  1. Mark WilenskyMarch 27, 2011 at 4:18 PM

    I never tire of Paine's words.

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  2. Kenneth W. BurchellMarch 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM

    Thanks for your comment, Mark. This passage has an almost thunderous sonority to my ear -- like the sound of lightening echoing mountain to mountain -- Paine's voice, nothing like it.

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