"Hatfield" wrote in message
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On his deathbed he went still another step, embraced faith, and
retracted any and all attacks against Christianity in The Age of
Reason: "I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had
never been published. O Lord, help me! Christ, help me! Stay with me!
It is hell to be left alone." Paine, as vocal a debunker of
Christianity as there was in the colonies, died believing passionately
in God and hoping for a future life. He had learned the hard way the
lessons of the French Revolution."""

Absolute, utter bull**** brought to the same people who gave us the Lady
Hope story that Darwin renounced all of his works on his deathbed.. I'm an
atheist. Paine wasn't.

http://tinyurl.com/9lxjr

I'll not even bother with the rest of that load of crap including the
misrepresentation of Paine's political views, other than to note that it was
James Monroe who secured Paine's release from prison, not Thomas Jefferson.
(Talk about trying to revise history!)

Paine and Jefferson, by the way, were good friends. Which ought to tell you
something.