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The initial protest against Christianity was often a moral one, coupled with a sense of incredulity at the claims made in the Bible. Here, as in so many other things, Paine’s Age of Reason led the way. Part 1 was written in Paris in 1794, and towards the end of the work Paine set down his own earliest doubts.
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Royle, E. (1976). Destructive Protest. In: Royle, E. (eds) The Infidel Tradition. History in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02410-0_8
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