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“ ”Another set of preachers tells their congregations that God predestinated and selected from all eternity, a certain number to be saved. And a certain number to be damned eternally. If this were true, the day of Judgment is past; their preaching is in vain, and they had better work at some useful calling for their livelihood.
About Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – 8 June 1809) was a British-American political writer, theorist, and activist who had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence. He wrote three of the most influential and controversial works of the 18th Century: Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights.
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Additional quotes by Thomas Paine
The government of a free country, properly speaking, is not in the persons, but in the laws.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.
False testimony is always good against itself.