Talk:The American Crisis

Move to Wikisource
Instead of deleting, this could probably be moved to Wikisource Danny 23:29, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Assumption of Deism
The article assumes not only that Paine was appealing to a deist God, but that the people were deist. This seems to be a lack of NPOV. Hillshum|Talk 04:15, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * What you fail to comprehend is that the "deist God" is a "God" free from human interpretation imposed upon society by religious institutions and organizations. It is, in other words, nature herself, unbound from your perceptive bias, free from your human belief about what it is:

"Paine felt that Christianity and other institutional religions brought about sectarianism and strife because of their priesthoods and dogmas, while Deism with its wordless 'Bible' did the opposite. It united: 'The Creation speaks a universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be'...What Paine and Jefferson represent is not atheism or secularism but a religious revolution. They saw themselves rejecting human interpretations, anthropomorphisms, fables, and dogmas that divide humans, and turning toward a universal religion, beyond dogmas, that would unite them.  Even science became a religious pursuit for them, a methodical and painstaking examination, more demanding than scriptural exegesis, of nature itself: 'It is an inconsistency scarcely possible to be credited that...held it to be irreligious to study and contemplate the structure of the universe that God has made.' (Meyer 2001)"


 * Them there's the facts of what these guys were after, and is totally contrary to what the so-called "religious patriots" of the 21st century claim to represent. Viriditas (talk) 07:55, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Volume I or II?
The quote "These are the times..." was in the second volume according to a version that I am reading.

Did not the first volume start with "General Gage's Proclimation lies before me..."? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philfromwaterbury (talk • contribs) 04:06, 8 February 2012 (UTC)