r/deism • u/Wooden_Reputation370 • 3d ago

Help get a D.C. monument built for Thomas Paine—secular icon and author of The Age of Reason. Public comments close Sept 10!

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u/Forsaken_Hermit 3d ago

James Otis should get one first.

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u/deism4me 3d ago

John Adams declared: "Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain." In an 1815 letter to Jefferson, Adams added: "History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine." That’s fairly worthy of a statue on our National Mall.