Why did Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin hate religion, specifically Christianity so much? When you consider how much disease, infant death and war was going on wouldn't a faith in God make it easier for you to get through life? What lead them to think Christ and God were not real?
Why did Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin hate religion, specifically Christianity so much...
Landon Brooks
Ayden Parker
they were the 1% of their time
Cameron Carter
Yes I know but how could they have been so sure of it?
Bentley Brown
The Enlightenment is a bitch supernatural, backwards boy.
The French government of the day had Franklin debunk Mesmer and mesmerism for fucks sakes. Grow up.
Charles Nelson
when you are the 1% you don't need god. death, famine, etc, scarcely ever touch you, and infant mortality, well, that's a woman's crisis. rich men shrug it off.
Noah Johnson
One factor might be pretty much all of English history in regards to religion up to their time.
Gabriel Garcia
Joseph Campbell
Most likely for lack of proof and they had scientific minds. Also, the stories in the Torah and the Bible are patently ridiculous on their face, and back then most people didn't even know where the stars went at night.
Charles Jones
Because there is no evidence of any god and all evidence points to, if anything, some powerful blind force driving everything, one that has probably has no consciousness and doesn't give a shit about anything even if it was conscious. We are just bacteria growing on a rock floating in space.
Camden Rodriguez
Fascinating do you think the backlash they faced for their anti-Christian views by common folk might of fueled their anger towards organized religion?
William Harris
Because the Enlightenment was a mistake. Only a return to Christian Monarchy can save us.
Julian Price
imagine figuring literally anything out on your own, trying to tell the retards around you so you can improve their lives, and having them tell you it was sinful because it wasn't in one of their shitty paperback copies of the king james bible that they didn't even know how to read
Austin Brooks
They were crypto kikes and helped create the beast that would one day ensure unending jewish supremacy over the world.
Xavier Campbell
I'm not aware of how common folk felt about them but if there was a backlash I assume it would drive anyone else to hate religion a little bit more. Many people of that era were starting to seriously question religion and it seems logical since science was severely bitch slapping religion at that time. It must have been a very profound time to live in, back when atheism was literally edgy.
Juan Smith
>says the slave
William Perez
It still is edgy according to the masses
Jeremiah Wright
Why would God allow the English monarch to lose hold of the American colonies?
What makes me skeptical about Christianity and I can assume for everyone else was the amount of denominations and argument over theology. But I guess people back then didn't have much to do like we do today so pouring over the Bible and engaging in rituals must of been a hell of a lot of fun for them.
Aaron Ortiz
>they didn't even know how to read
Imagine being so convinced of your own superiority that you believe shit like this.
Jonathan Hall
>When you consider how much disease, infant death and war was going on wouldn't a faith in God make it easier for you to get through life?
Look up Wars of Religion.
Isaac Wilson
>Why would God allow the English monarch to lose hold of the American colonies?
Troubled times exist to test us and teach us. They were prophesied in the Bible. And things will get much worse than they are now before they get better.
>What makes me skeptical about Christianity and I can assume for everyone else was the amount of denominations and argument over theology. But I guess people back then didn't have much to do like we do today so pouring over the Bible and engaging in rituals must of been a hell of a lot of fun for them.
Actually there's far more denominations today than in the past, and they keep growing at an exponential rate. But they're all just denominations of Protestantism, and they grow because Protestantism has no center, so everyone can make up their own center. In the beginning there was only one Christian Church, founded by Jesus Christ himself, and passed on through his disciples and their disciples and so on. Then a thousand years ago the Roman Catholics split off from the true church and became corrupt, while the true church remained unchanged with an unbroken line of succession and passing down of knowledge from Christ and his apostles and is now called the Orthodox Church. Protestantism is a sad case of people recognizing that something was wrong with Roman Catholicism, but instead of studying deeper and looking to the east, they decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater and make up their own bullshit instead because that's a lot easier.
Noah Robinson
Yeah but were they really fought over faith or just power?
What did you say to Catholics who say Rome is the head of the church because Jesus gave the keys to Peter or something like that.