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The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of Deism (There is a God but she/he doesn;t interfere in the everyday world). Paine advocates reason in the place of revelation, leading him to reject miracles and to view the Bible as an ordinary piece of literature rather than as a divinely inspired text. It promotes natural religion and argues for the existence of a creator-god

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1. Pomp

I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes. I. Adjective 1. (Of An Amount) Small Or Meager - She Would Earn A Paltry $33 More Each Month. 2. Petty; Trivial - Naval Glory Struck Him As Paltry.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.

2. Devout

I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes. I. Adjective 1. (Of An Amount) Small Or Meager - She Would Earn A Paltry $33 More Each Month. 2. Petty; Trivial - Naval Glory Struck Him As Paltry.

3. Philanthropy

I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. (Of An Amount) Small Or Meager - She Would Earn A Paltry $33 More Each Month. 2. Petty; Trivial - Naval Glory Struck Him As Paltry. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.

4. Paltry

I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist. I. Adjective 1. (Of An Amount) Small Or Meager - She Would Earn A Paltry $33 More Each Month. 2. Petty; Trivial - Naval Glory Struck Him As Paltry.

5. Fable

. Noun 1. A Short Story - Typically With Animals As Characters - Conveying A Moral. 2. A Story - Typically A Supernatural One Incorporating Elements Of Myth And Legend.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.

6. The Church Has Set Up A System Of Religion -

I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.Very Contradictory To The Character Of The Person Whose Name It Bears. It Has Set Up A Religion Of Pomp And Revenue - In Pretended Imitation Of A Person Whose Life Was Humility And Poverty.

7. Conceit

I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes. I. Noun 1. Excessive Pride In Oneself - He Was Puffed Up With Conceit.

8. Idolatry

I. Noun 1. Worship Of Idols. 2. Extreme Admiration - Love - Or Reverence For Something Or Someone - We Must Not Allow Our Idolatry Of Art To Obscure Issues Of Political Significance.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.

9. Levity

I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes. I. Noun Humor Or Frivolity - Especially The Treatment Of A Serious Matter With Humor Or In A Manner Lacking Due Respect - As An Attempt To Introduce A Note Of Levity - The Words Were A Disastrous Flop.

10. Writer

I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.Thomas Paine

11. I Moreover Believe - -

I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.That Any System Of Religion That Has Anything In It That Shocks The Mind Of A Child - Cannot Be A True System.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.

12. Epistolary

I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.I. Adjective Relating To Or Denoting The Writing Of Letters Or Literary Works In The Form Of Letters - An Epistolary Novel. - Origin Mid 17th Cent.: From

13. The Case Is - That The Word -

I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.Prophet - To Which Latter Times Have Affixed A New Idea - Was The Bible Word For Poet - And The Word Prophesying Meant The Art Of Making Poetry. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.

14. Reason

I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.The Power Of The Mind To Think - Understand - And Form Judgments By A Process Of Logic.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.

15. Credulity

I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.Noun A Tendency To Be Too Ready To Believe That Something Is Real Or True. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.

16. Jesus Christ Wrote No Account -

Of Himself - Of His Birth - Parentage - Or Any Thing Else; Not A Line Of What Is Called The New Testament Is Of His Own Writing. The History Of Him Is Altogether The Work Of Other People; And As To The Account Given Of His Resurrection And Ascension - It Was The Necessary Counterpart To The Story Of His Birth. His Historians Having Brought Him Into The World In A Supernatural Manner - Were Obliged To Take Him Out Again In The Same Manner - Or The First Part Of The Story Must Have Fallen To The Ground.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.

17. Erroneous

I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Adjective Wrong; Incorrect - Employers Sometimes Make ErroneousI. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.

18. Logic

I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.Noun 1. Reasoning Conducted Or Assessed According To Strict Principles Of Validity.

19. Contempt

I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.The Feeling That A Person Or A Thing Is Beneath Consideration - Worthless - Or Deserving Scorn

20. Vain

I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing An Excessively High Opinion Of One's Appearance - Abilities - Or Worth - Their Flattery Made Him Vain. 2. [Attrib.] —producing No Result; Useless - A Vain Attempt To Tidy Up The Room - The Vain Hope Of Finding Work. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.

21. Reverence

I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. Deep Respect For Someone Or Something - Rituals Showed Honor And Reverence For The Dead.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance.

22. The Continually Progressive -

I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.Change To Which The Meaning Of Words Is Subject - The Want Of A Universal Language Which Renders Translation Necessary - The Errors To Which Translations Are Again Subject - The Mistakes Of Copyists And Printers - Together With The Possibility Of Willful Alteration - Are Of Themselves Evidences That The Human Language - Whether In Speech Or In Print - Cannot Be The Vehicle Of The Word Of God. The Word Of God Exists In Something Else.

23. So Late As -

1610 - Galileo - A Florentine - Discovered And Introduced The Use Of Telescopes - And By Applying Them To Observe The Motions And Appearances Of The Heavenly Bodies - Afforded Additional Means For Ascertaining The True Structure Of The Universe. Instead Of Being Esteemed For Those Discoveries - He Was Sentenced To Renounce Them - Or The Opinions Resulting From Them - As A Damnable Heresy.I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.

24. Disposition

I. Noun 1. The Desire To Promote The Welfare Of Others - Expressed Especially By The Generous Donation Of Money To Good Causes. I. Adjective 1. Having Or Showing Deep Religious Feeling Or Commitment - She Was A Devout Catholic - A Rabbi's Devout Prayers. 2. Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief - The Most Devout Environmentalist.I. Noun 1. Ceremony And Splendid Display - Especially At A Public Event - St. Paul's Was Perfectly Adapted To Pomp And Circumstance. I. Noun 1. A Person's Inherent Qualities Of Mind And Character - A Sweet-natured Girl Of A Placid Disposition. 2. [Often With Infinitive] —an Inclination Or Tendency - The Cattle Showed A Decided Disposition To Run - The Judge's Disposition Toward Clemency.

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