Archive for Thomas Paine
Religion and Morality: Indispensable Supports?
It’s confession time for Hercules Mulligan: I get more comments on this blog than from irregular readers, than on any of my other (many) blogs. Several of these comments, I have not yet responded to. I sincerely and profusely apologize to those who wrote them for not having given them the attention and concentration that [...]
What You Never Learned in History Class about Tom Paine
I am quite sure that the public schools and the media have insured that my readers have heard about Thomas Paine, so my introduction will not be long. Thomas Paine was born in 1737 in England. He immigrated to America in 1774, when the disputes between the American colonists and the English government were escalating. [...]