Thomas Paine, Religious Prohibition
- Artist/Author/Producer: Thomas Paine
- Confronting Bodies: Christian Church
- Dates of action: 1759
- Location: France
- Description of the Art Work
- "...The Age of Reason was written between 1792-1795 while Paine was in
prison for his opposition to the execution of Louis XIV." (The book)...is
a wholesale attack on the Bible and on Christianity, written in
deliberately flippant, and thus shocking style. It takes the deist point
of view, epitomized by Paine's statement 'I believe in one God, and no
more'... Paine condemned the Old Testament as being filled with "obscene
stories and voluptuous debaucheries"; the New testament was inconsistent
and the Virgin Birth "hearsay upon hearsay." Encyclopedia of Censorship,
Jonathon Green pg. 3-4
- Description of incident
- In was condemned as blasphemous and joined Paine's other work as a target
for the censor.
- Results of incident
- No copies survive.
Source:Encyclopedia of Censorship, Jonathon Green,Pg. 3-4
