Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine January 10, 1776 Tom Paine later was a prominent Deist, viewed by many church leaders as a threat and heretic because he didn’t accept the Bible as literal truth. As a result, it’s often forgotten that his seminal revolutionary rallying cry made heavy use of the Bible. MANKIND being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be…