Dear freepers claiming Thomas Paine as one of your own;

[LynnTheDem]

You are the dumbest MFers on the planet, that goes without saying...but HOLY SHI'ITE you bunch are the DUMBEST MFers on the planet!!!

Paine became notorious because of The Age of Reason (1793–94), the book advocating deism and arguing against Christian doctrines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine

List of liberal theorists

Thomas Paine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributions_to_liberal_theory#Thomas_Paine


I mean, DUMBEST MFers ON THE PLANET. EVER!

[saltpoint]

1. Quite a stretch for the wingnuts to huddle around Paine.

He wouldn't put up with their miserable butts for 5 minutes.

[hlthe2b]

2. Advantage of their overwhelming ignorance...

they can twist any figure's beliefs to fit their own imagination.

[saltpoint]

3. Probably so. There'd sure be a whole lotta twistin' goin' on with the freeps

and Paine.

Wow.

[dalaigh lllama]

4. Well of course. Wasn't it Huckabee who said all the founding fathers

were Christian preachers? :crazy:

[jody]

5. IMO Paine would be disgusted by both major political parties.

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

"These are the times that try men's souls."

[Solomon]

6. I've been complaining about this for some time. Paine is one of

my favorites and I've actually read his books. The Age of Reason is one of my favorites.

But forget Paine. They are doing the same thing with Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Washington, ... the list goes on and on. They are so ill-informed and ignorant. Last night Hannity was claiming that every president, read that EVERY president before Obama was a christian which is complete and utter nonsense. He named Woodrow Wilson for chrissakes, a notorious atheist. And don't even mention Lincoln, the so-called greatest president - he didn't believe in God or christianity.

They make me sick with their stupidity. Lie lie lie lie.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. In what context are they claiming Paine as one of them?

Is it something he wrote? Is it how he lived his life?
Details, please - I find it hard to believe, myself.

:think:

[DinahMoeHum]

8. Never mind - some folks beat me to the punch here.

thanks

[Solomon]

12. They somehow think that anybody who was a "founding father"

automatically means they were conservative christians. So wrong it's ridiculous.

Mark Levine has a book out now that they are trying to use as their resuscitating document. In it he claims that the founding fathers were conservative. :rofl:

If these idiots were living back then, they would be Tories, not revolutionaries.

They are just sick.

[LynnTheDem]

15. Some freeper wrote a POEM referencing Paine!

A Poem for the Tea Parties

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228742/posts

Or so you don't have to dirty your 'puter, sufrommich took the hit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5452715


There's freeper dumbness...and then there's freeper DUMBNESS!

[Zomby Woof]

9. The Rights of Man

Considering how that was a treatise FOR the French Revolution and AGAINST Edmund Burke, the leading conservative voice of his day, it would be an incredible stretch indeed for freeptards to conflate Paine as one of their own.

[Dappleganger]

10. Freepers consistently reject reality and substitute their own. nt

nt

[rvablue]

11. Kicking for it's simple and inarguable truth! n/t

[WeDidIt]

13. Wasn't Paine an atheist, too?

That shouldmake Freeper heads explode.

[LynnTheDem]

16. A rather ardent one, lol! This is why they vote republic; they don't have a clue what

the republic party even stands for!

If they knew how much they've been voting against their own interests, how much they've been deliberately tricked and duped and conned by the likes of limpbauh and Fox "News" et al...THEN talk about "pitchforks"!

[progressoid]

14. Oh you silly librrels.

They are trying to show us how wrong we are by using one of our own to argue against us so...umm...er..something or another. I kinda get lost trying to understand the freep.

[mwei924]

17. He was also a very early proponent of a social security like program.

Thomas Paine is like the liberal of liberals, before that word even had the meaning it has today.

[Solomon]

18. More than that. He was the real deal. Got locked up

for his opinions and damned near got his head chopped off. Goddam radical terrorist.