Thomas Paine

JAMES PERLOFF argues that Thomas Paine, not Thomas Jefferson, wrote America’s most famous document. Perloff believes Paine’s authorship was kept quiet over the years because it would have exposed the anti-Christian sentiments of America’s founders:

“Since America was predominantly Christian, it couldn’t be admitted that someone of such views had penned the nation’s birth certificate. It would have caused what we now call ‘cognitive dissonance.'”

It was Paine who wrote in his book The Age of Reason:

It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called Christianity.

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work, that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.

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Anti-Globalist Expatriate writes:

Thomas Paine did not write the Declaration of Independence.

Jefferson’s authorship of the Declaration, including the revisions made during the writing process, are quite well-documented and supported by contemporary testimony.

Terry Morris writes:

“Jefferson’s authorship of the Declaration, including the revisions made during the writing process, are quite well-documented and supported by contemporary testimony.”

Yes, I think this is a non-starter. I wouldn’t pursue it any further.

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