1. Thomas Paine
Lit I Thomas Paine, Reasoning the Enlightenment In the first few lines of his argument against the church and state, Thomas Paine writes: "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, Roman church, Greek church, Turkish church, Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. ... In addition, he makes claim to the fact that the only witnesses to this supernatural reality are humans who were themselves representative of the Jewish priests working in collusion with the Roman church (which is entirely unsupported by any evidence of history) that supposedly put Christ to dea...
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