The Suncoast Humanist Society May Meetup

Our Program for Saturday, May 2nd ...

"He attacked anything that seemed to him to sidetrack humanity's long struggle for the common good, liberty and rights of all people, especially those who were the victims of tyranny and terror, slavery and poverty....As he once wrote....'My motive and object....have been to rescue man from tyranny and false systems and false principles of government....he received very little money for the work he did on behalf of American, British or French liberty. He wrote because he thought he had to do his part, no matter how small, to serve the cause of human progress in the world."
"Paine's task, as he saw it, was to spread ...the message... that human beings could improve their living conditions when they acknowleddged the godliness of life itself and their own creative abilities tp transform political and social evils into liberty, equality and justice....he was not merely a deist..... but a pantheist, someone who believed that the spirit pf God, a power beyong human capacity to comprehend fully, was present in every aspect of life on earth." SB