[Mylo]

Two observations.

1) you cannot refute the facts I cited.

2) your profile page doesn't refute the facts I cited.

Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737–June 8, 1809), intellectual, scholar, and idealist, is widely recognized as one of the

Founding Fathers

of the United States. A radical pamphleteer, Paine anticipated and helped foment the American Revolution through his powerful writings, most notably Common Sense, an incendiary tract advocating independence from Great Britain. An advocate for liberalism and constitutional republican government, he outlined his political philosophy in The Rights of Man, written both as a defense against Edmund Burke's view of the radical revolution in France and as a general political philosophy treatise. Paine was also noteworthy for his defense of

deism,

taking its form in his theology treatise The Age of Reason, as well as for his eyewitness accounts of both the French and American Revolutions.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine

[Matchett-PI]

"your profile page doesn't refute the facts I cited."

Yes it does. You either didn't read it or you didn't comprehend what you read due to cognitive dissonance.

"Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737–June 8, 1809), intellectual, scholar, and idealist, is widely recognized as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. ... Paine was also noteworthy for his defense of deism.." [Source]: Wikipedia

Wikipedia isn't a reliable source. Any moral relativist may "edit" it with whatever his own personal "truth" is at any given moment.

The atheists who run this web site celebrate him, though, just as much as you do:

Positive Atheism For Those Seeking to Initiate or Invigorate Their Awareness of Their Own Freedom from Superstition and Theistic Faith SEE: The Works of Thomas Paine