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 an interesting twist on Paine's argument utilizing Aristotle's ideal on poetics, Paine claims that the imagery in the books supposedly written by Prophets is actually poetry. ... However, he says, the book does not claim itself to be a work of poetry. ... Proving that Addison's...

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Both Aristotle and the Catholic Church approved of this truth, and at the time, it was extremely blasphemous to question either voice. ... However, even after Galileo had apologized for the contents of his "heretical" book, the Catholic Church still kept extremely close tabs on him, and proceeded to do so until the day of his death. ... Before leaving to face the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Rome, Galileo wrote a letter to a friend of his in which he stated, "I hear from well-informed parties that the Jesuit Fathers have insinuated in the highest quarters that my book is more execrable an...

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Another famous philosopher, Aristotle, held that women were the human beings with four strong limbs but simple brains. The classical western religious book, Bible, considered women to be the roots of all evils and proved the inequality between men and women to be quite normal. ... Although, they are facing the problems I have mentioned above, great changes did happen to them. ... The main reason, I believe, is that she has realized her own rights, and that she wants to find herself. ... The 21st century, I strongly believe, will also greatly advance in women's rights. ...

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