Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine)
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
- Author
- Thomas Paine
- Published
- 1794
- Pages
- 155
- Recommended
- Once
The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine)
Why it’s on the list: Paine’s deist attack on revealed religion and on the Bible as a text — the book that cost him most of the goodwill Common Sense had earned him.
Where I saw it: Recommended by @romanhelmetguy on X, December 16, 2025, alongside his reading rule: “Half the books you read must be from before WW2.” https://x.com/romanhelmetguy/status/2000775031949824123
Note on the record: Filed under a disambiguated title because wiki/concepts/The Age of Reason.md already owns the short form; the bare name is deliberately NOT an alias here.
Connections
- Thomas Paine — the author.
- Enlightenment — the movement.
- Religion — the subject.
- Ideological Family Tree — where this sits on the tree.
- The Age of Reason — the concept page that owns the short form of this title — the Enlightenment as a period.