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The American Crises - Pt 5 · Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast

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  This is plausibly Live, the official podcast of The Dave
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  Bowman Show. Thomas Paine wasn't what you'd
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  call a religious man, but he couldn't escape the language of
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  faith in the American crisis. He wrote of Providence, the hand
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  of God guiding history, and he believed that God favored the
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  cause of liberty over tyranny. He saw divine justice not in
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  miracles but in moments, a sudden fog that saved the army,
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  a storm that protected Washington's retreat.
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  He called these signs of Providence, the quiet proof that
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  heaven stands with those who fight for what's right.
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  As a chassis. I see it a little differently,
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  but I understand him. Paine's Providence is what we
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  call hashcacha pratis, Divine supervision.
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  The belief that nothing happens by accident.
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  Every hardship, every victory, every candle burning in the dark
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  has purpose. Faith and divine justice isn't
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  passive, it's trust that God works through those who act with
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  courage and righteousness. Paine believed it, and so do I.