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Thomas Paine — who lost everything for the last book.
Common Sense sold in the hundreds of thousands; The Age of Reason made him unemployable. He died in New York in 1809 with almost no one at the funeral.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
The design is the revelation.
Nature is the only text that was not written by a human being, cannot be mistranslated and is available in every language at once.
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God does not intervene, so there is nothing to ask for.
No miracle, no prophecy, no answered petition. This is the doctrine that empties the building, and it is why deism has almost no practice.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
A designed universe running on fixed laws that are never suspended
After death
Disputed among deists. Paine expected to survive death; others hold that a non-intervening God offers no grounds either way.