Thomas Paine.

Thomas Paine, he wasn't involved at this point, but go back to common sense and Thomas Paine who became

I was thinking that was Thomas Paine. But for some reason I thought it was Thomas Paine.

America there was Thomas Paine and Robert Ingersoll who gave their pens to attacking the Word of God.

Thomas Paine, yeah. I believe so.

Thomas Paine did.

But at some point in time he runs into the writings of Thomas Paine.

Thomas Paine author of common -sense Leading atheistic writer and the American colonies said this To

The majority of those essays, if you read America in Crisis, was just Thomas Paine trying to get the

One thing is that, you know, Burke was writing against the French Revolution and people like Thomas Paine

Was it Thomas Paine? He was one of the greatest enemies of Christianity at the time.

But that's like Thomas Paine using the Bible to justify his argumentation for liberty and common sense

Thomas Paine and the Age of Reason pointed out the rather obvious fact That if God did reveal something

If any of you have seen The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, that's in essence what you have in Paine's

Yeah, and then when Thomas Paine it was not technically a founder He wrote of an immensely popular track

you can kind of always everything God's Word could not have been a man who wrote it by the name of Thomas

And so there were lots of people that said, well, I mean, just read Thomas Paine.

And I'm gonna read for you some familiar lines, and then I'm gonna talk about what is the Declaration of Independence? Thomas Jefferson obviously wrote it. And he said, "'We hold these truths to be self -evident in the preamble, "'that all men are created equal, "'that they are endowed by the Creator "'with certain unalienable rights, "'that among these are life, liberty, "'and the pursuit of happiness, "'that to secure these rights, "'governments are instituted among men, "'deriving their powers from the consent of the governed, "'whenever any form of government "'becomes destructive of these ends, "'it is the right of the people to abolish, "'alter or abolish and institute new government, "'laying its foundation on such principles "'and organizing its powers in such form "'as to them shall seem most likely "'to affect their safety and happiness.'".

And our founders understood this, and the English of the 1640s understood this, and that is why they went to war with their own king. Sam Adams is often called the father of the American Revolution. He was a devout Christian man.

So, these are the conditions that formed the powder keg, which was to be the American Revolution.