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Tag: Thomas Paine

Posted on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

Freethought Film

The Center for Inquiry produced an excellent series on American Freethought.  With the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism, this is the time to get educated about the critical and historical…

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Posted on January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

Thomas Paine Day

Would there be a country named the “United States of America” without Thomas Paine?  After all, he is credited with first using that name for the new nation.  George Washington…

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Posted on October 24, 2019October 24, 2019

Lord of the Nation?

Teaching a class on Thomas Paine “in our age of un-reason” I came across this quote from the United States Senate Chaplain’s official government website (let that sink in before…

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Posted on September 18, 2019

Paine Management for Believers and Non-Believers

As I’m about to teach a six-week class on a forgotten freethinking founder of America, it becomes clearer to me that Thomas Paine is used and abused by people across…

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Posted on July 18, 2019July 18, 2019

Thomas Paine in Space

Paine in space?  Not quite.  But these powerful words from the first Latino NASA astronaut, Franklin Chang Diaz sound like Tom’s famous words: “I think of myself as a mixture of…

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