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Briefly discuss the writing that caused Thomas Paine to be labeled an atheistic person. Did Ben Franklin's warning to Paine prove to be true?

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The writing that caused Thomas Paine to be labeled atheistic was the pamphlet The Age of Reason, written in 1795. This document advocated Deism, a belief system that rejected the Bible and all organized religion and sought the divine in the natural world rather than within the church walls (The Deist Document, http://www.positivedeism.com/deistdoc2.html). This was a radical notion that defied the conservative Protestants who predominated in the early United States ...

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