The Age of Reason

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, published in three parts from 1794, was a best seller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. Promoting a creator-God while advocating reason in the place of revelation, Paine’s controversial pamphlet caused his native British audience, fearing the results of the French Revolution, to receive it with more hostility than their American counterparts. This passionate and engaging recording of Paine’s classic is as certain to provoke modern listeners to thought as it did his original audience.

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Well said

I love the fact that this guy alaws others there freedom to believe what they want and to be who they are!!! 🫀😇🙏🏼

A ideas hidden in plain view...

clear presentation of often neglected historical significance. clear presentation of often neglected historical significance

little too much emotion

the story was amazing. the book was amazing! very articulate and detailed in the arguments against religion. I love Paine, but I think the reader of the story was trying to guess just how frustrated Paine was with religion by adding emotional exclamation in some sentence or emotionally emphasizing a word and the end of a sentence to show how impatient he was at explaining this to religious people.

THE KERNEL OF STEM N MECHANICAL ARTS

PAINE IS ONE OF MY IDOLS...I JUST WISH HE COULD HAVE USED MUCH BETTER TONE, EXPRESSIONS AND WORDS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH THOMAS PAINE.

Under-appreciated.

This historic work gives great of information to consider on Western Religion and it’s shortcomings.

Incredible polemic of Christianity

In part one, Thomas Paine lays out his argument for his disappointment in Christianity and the falsehoods found in it. In part two, he painstakingly goes through the Bible and uses its own words to show how the New Testament isn’t a 2000+ year old book that was written by the Apostles. And neither is the former part a 5000 year old book. Instead, it was written by poets and authors who simply wanted to write stories and was compiled into this larger book called “the Bible” hundreds of years after the death of Jesus Christ.

Know Paine, know gain!

Where does The Age of Reason rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This book is a quick listen. Packed with great info and is masterfully read.

What other book might you compare The Age of Reason to and why?

Try all of Paine's books. Common Sense especially.

What does Robin Field bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The author comes to life with the reading of Robin Field

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I listened to the whole book in one work day

Awesome

A very important subject and engaging performance. I flew through this. I definitely recommend it!

Disillusioned

It gave me a whole new perspective of what I have been taught over the years.

Would like to see serious scholarly criticism

I'd be curious to see any refutations of this work, serious ones. I recognize the Paine was not likely to be working in the original Greek and Hebrew. I get that the understanding that the Gospels were not the work of the named Apostle was not common understanding, nor, perhaps, was it commonly understood the Moses didn't right the first few chapters of the old testament either. I'm not sure that a common fallacy isn't necessarily a refutation of the Bible. I do think he raises many good points, although I didn't find his descriptions of Deism to be all that complete. What I found most interesting was to wonder if many that have seemingly misunderstood the Church/State separation, could even begin to comprehend this work, and the implications it has for their view of the "Founding Fathers."