“The Crisis, No. 1” by Thomas Paine

"I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has
ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military
destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so
repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which
wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose
that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care
of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can
look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a
house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he."


REFLECTION: Thomas payne is kinda like the others, where he belives that god will fix his problems. He finds in an inner peace in god. He just the ohter who has god guide there way through everthing. God is the answer to eveything for him. Hes like the other authors.

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