If thomas paine was a liar then why whould they ban his book the age of reason off the shelves?

Question

I thought the book burning and banning was over in the fifteenth century. i guess some things never change.

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Blunden/print.htm

The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason , by Thomas Paine, forged the way for American revolutionaries and for his personal indictment for treason in 1792 in England. Publishers of The Age of Reason, which argued for Deism over Christianity and Atheism, were also prosecuted just for printing the book.

Answer 1

Your question is not at all clear. I will respond to book-banning and book-burning, however.
Hitler is one example of a book-banner and book-burner. He burned Bibles.
People and movements who are afraid of ideas will do just that. Adults should be allowed to read anything and discuss it openly.

Answer 2

a liar? i'm not at all sure what you're talking about--i do know he was a controversial writer during the NINETEENTH CENTURY, which is when Thomas Paine was alive.

Books are banned all the time, even now for controversial and lewd content. Most of the time the books are available to the public in bookstores, just not in libraries or schools.

The keyword is censorship--during the Romantic Period (when Thomas Paine was writing), there was talk of women's suffrage, and women were still looked upon as "moral pillars" and were only starting to have actual jobs and responsibilites. It was looked down upon to be a writer, unless you were fairly rich and a man. Women usually wrote under pen names--the Bronte sisters all did.

If you aren't already in college, take Romantic and Victorian Literatures if you're truly interested in the why's and how's of why such things were so controversial at the time.

Answer 3

Book banning is really pointless; it only makes a book even more popular.

I really don't care for the unsubstantiated assertion that Thomas Paine was "a liar" either; he happens to be one of my favourite historical figures, and if it weren't for his iconoclastic pamphlets, the then-radical ideal of democracy would have been much less likely to ever take launch.

Answer 4

Thomas paine was a "free thinker", and a satirist. Last week another such person, Ann Colter was vilified, and a state senator in New Jersey suggested banning her books. How archaic, and sad. And scary if it reallty happens.

Answer 5

Books should never be banned.

If we started banning books with dangerous ideas, we'd have to ban the Bible too.

Answer 6

Who's "they"? What do you mean? If you mean Christian bookstores, I don't see a problem. No one really knows what you're talking about.