Who said:
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again”
He wrote that in 1776. If he were alive today, he would look at our political and economic system and see how broken and corrupted and totally unsustainable it is, and he would see democracy in critical condition, and he and his compatriots would roll up their sleeves and work with us to reform it.
The last thing he would do would be to look back 250 years and say that we need to return to some mythical golden age of “greatness”, or interpret words literally and seek racist coup d’etats and to set one state against the other and give corporations “personhood” rights and more rights than actual people.
he was and would be absolutely against dismantling the separation between church and state, and he would be viciously against Christian Fascism or fascism of any kind. As a matter fact, in his book the age of reason, he took a stance against any kind of institutionalized religion.
In The Age of Reason and other writings he advocated Deism, promoted reason and freethought, and argued against institutionalized religions in general and the Christian doctrine in particular.
He is a founding father, and I’m curious to know what the vigilant zealot Trump supporters and conservatives think about this founding father. He is one of them whom I can actually respect.
So why has this guy been canceled and ignored?
might it be because the current republican party is overtly against democracy itself, is overtly Christian and corporate fascist, and the founding fathers would look at the GQP with disgust?
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again”
He wrote that in 1776. If he were alive today, he would look at our political and economic system and see how broken and corrupted and totally unsustainable it is, and he would see democracy in critical condition, and he and his compatriots would roll up their sleeves and work with us to reform it.
The last thing he would do would be to look back 250 years and say that we need to return to some mythical golden age of “greatness”, or interpret words literally and seek racist coup d’etats and to set one state against the other and give corporations “personhood” rights and more rights than actual people.
he was and would be absolutely against dismantling the separation between church and state, and he would be viciously against Christian Fascism or fascism of any kind. As a matter fact, in his book the age of reason, he took a stance against any kind of institutionalized religion.
In The Age of Reason and other writings he advocated Deism, promoted reason and freethought, and argued against institutionalized religions in general and the Christian doctrine in particular.
He is a founding father, and I’m curious to know what the vigilant zealot Trump supporters and conservatives think about this founding father. He is one of them whom I can actually respect.
So why has this guy been canceled and ignored?
might it be because the current republican party is overtly against democracy itself, is overtly Christian and corporate fascist, and the founding fathers would look at the GQP with disgust?
Tom Paine on the “birthday of a new world” (1776) | Online Library of Liberty
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the...
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