[Grovenet] Lies ....... lies.... by the liberals

[Walt Wentz]

Tom Paine had no use for organized religion, especially as  
exemplified by the narrow and intolerant Jimmy Swaggarts of that day.  
As a consequence, he was viciously libeled and vilified by those  
people, even after his death. One such pious lie was that he was a  
raving alcoholic, another was that he made a dramatic deathbed  
conversion to "Christianity." Oddly enough, the latter is used  
against deceased and prominent atheists and agnostics even today.
Walt
On May 14, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Steven wrote:

> Interesting.
> How could Tom Paine write a book about Deists that was accurate but so
> outraged his contemporaries that he died rejected and despised by  
> the nation
> that had once revered him as "the father of the American Revolution."
> Sounds like an opinion piece.
>
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