Paine's book, "The Age of Reason”,critiques what

Thomas Paine's 'The Age of Reason' was an influential pamphlet attacking traditional Christianity. Paine, who was a deist and an important figure in the American Revolution, argued that God existed but the Bible was largely myth and that miracles were impossible

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