
The Limits of Reason #RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250
The Limits of Reason
#RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250
The Limits of Reason
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
— Proverbs 14:12
THE STORY
Thomas Paine believed in God. He just did not believe in much else.
His 1776 pamphlet Common Sense was one of the most influential documents in American history. Washington ordered it read aloud to his troops. It sold hundreds of thousands of copies in a population of three million. Thomas Paine lit a fire that no one else had been able to start.
And yet Paine himself demonstrated with…
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