Thomas Paine’s Influenced Paradigm shift of American colonist
People have trouble grasping the real reason behind the Americans claiming their freedom from the British. Little known to popular contrary belief a majority of the people that came to America actually wanted to remain British citizens, even when the British refused to let them be represented in Parliament, which is where the term loyalist comes from in the first place. Arguably one of the most interesting men from this time period actually had some problems of his own dealing with personal, spiritual, and political complications. A corset maker that just happened to become an activist for human rights is actually the same man that persuaded the American Patriots to fight for independence …show more content…
In The Age of Reason Paine Enlightens readers of his own personal religious beliefs. His position is made very clear from the start that he believes in one God and hopes for happiness beyond this life. In it pain criticizes religions like Christianity and Calvinism. He even offers statements on the validity of Jesus Christ himself. Pain identifies the savior as just an average man with very high morals who called himself the son of God. He also claims that the people who actually wrote the bible were people like John, Mathew, and Luke, also normal people, who actually wrote down the writings many years after the crucifixion of Jesus. Pain received much criticism for this writings and became exiled for his religious views. Americans have always tended to glorify some of the more ethnically challenged leaders in history, but for some reason Thomas Paine isn’t talked about as much as the others. In truth if it wasn’t for Paine’s religion, which had to have some type of influence on his writings, there wouldn’t have been a paradigm shift in the thinking of American colonist that would eventually lead to the Revolutionary War preceded by the signing of the Deceleration of
People have trouble grasping the real reason behind the Americans claiming their freedom from the British. Little known to popular contrary belief a majority of the people that came to America actually wanted to remain British citizens, even when the British refused to let them be represented in Parliament, which is where the term loyalist comes from in the first place. Arguably one of the most interesting men from this time period actually had some problems of his own dealing with personal, spiritual, and political complications. A corset maker that just happened to become an activist for human rights is actually the same man that persuaded the American Patriots to fight for independence …show more content…
In The Age of Reason Paine Enlightens readers of his own personal religious beliefs. His position is made very clear from the start that he believes in one God and hopes for happiness beyond this life. In it pain criticizes religions like Christianity and Calvinism. He even offers statements on the validity of Jesus Christ himself. Pain identifies the savior as just an average man with very high morals who called himself the son of God. He also claims that the people who actually wrote the bible were people like John, Mathew, and Luke, also normal people, who actually wrote down the writings many years after the crucifixion of Jesus. Pain received much criticism for this writings and became exiled for his religious views. Americans have always tended to glorify some of the more ethnically challenged leaders in history, but for some reason Thomas Paine isn’t talked about as much as the others. In truth if it wasn’t for Paine’s religion, which had to have some type of influence on his writings, there wouldn’t have been a paradigm shift in the thinking of American colonist that would eventually lead to the Revolutionary War preceded by the signing of the Deceleration of