This is impeccable historical information. I wonder if our President’s have this in mind when they are in the office. This man single handedly helped set the guidelines to American independence.
I’m so thankful that my interest in the revolution and the founders was sparked at an incredibly early age. Learning about what they had done, and reading what they had written really helped me to understand what good government could be, and was supposed to be. It certainly helped me to understand my rights and responsibilities as a citizen, and to avoid buying into the kinds of things schools try to indoctrinate kids with these days, which have turned many a young man or woman into a liberal right in front of my eyes. Thankfully, because of my natural curiosity, and my parents encouraging and fostering my interest, I managed to avoid that grim fate. Seeing what the founders believed and envisioned really highlights how corrupted our government has become. I hope we both live to see the tides turn, and can watch this country become what it was always destined to be: the greatest and freest nation on earth. I pray we’ll get to see and experience true freedom in our lifetimes, and can create a better, freer nation than the one we inherited, to leave to our own progeny. God willing.
@@CivilizedWarriorif only we had more youth like yourself. Tictok and other social media platforms is allowing foreign countries to indoctrinate and tear our nation apart. How we have arrived at the travesty of Biden Harris and as many who voted and will vote for her greatly concerns me for our future as a democratic republic.
Truth... So many people are unaware of real history. I never knew about Paine until 6 years ago. Whst we are going through today is exactly what went down in 1776. We need to share to others about Thomas Paine. Trump was good for America. He is a threat to globalists. We need to fight quickly...
@@ryangrumbles2216 what we are going through is nothing like 1776. Just like Trump you attempt to use the “so many people” are unaware of history to shift your own lack of knowledge onto others. You’ve perfectly demonstrated your own need for psychological projection to avoid facing your own inadequacies. Just. Like. Trump has done his entire life. Trump was not good for America, if for no other reason than he is uneducated and is completely lacking in knowledge of history. He’s never been anything more than a used car salesman catering to and fueling those who are desperate to find someone to be angry at in order to avoid looking at themselves. A pathological liar and disinformation spinster is not good for America. America deserves the truth, not a disinformation or propaganda performer who just wants the attention he didn’t receive as a child. He wouldn’t know Thomas Paine from Tom Petty.
“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” -Thomas Paine
He had beyond progressive and moral ideas ... "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine ~ Baha'i Thought
@Mike burner He's not comparing the conservatives of now moron, that's why he said the conservatives "of that time." As you yourself point it out in the comment conservatism and progressivism are situational and putting him in the situation of that time Paine was absolutely progressive and you even show how he was progressive he was in your comment with his open advocation civil liberties (not to mention his anti-slavery views).
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Those not smart enough to view the past through the prism of the past will not understand history, nor will they understand enough to prevent the reproduction of it's horrors
Erin, I IMMENSELY appreciate your interest, & your Question: Both are very intelligent. It is not so much a joke, as a conundrum. Thomas Paine was indeed extremely hostile to religion throughout much of his life, but there were quieter occasions of compromise when he embraced a mutated sort of deism, wholeheartedly accepting spirituality if not religion. Thomas Paine College is a theological, ultra-liberal and unique institution, couched firmly in The Christian Left and overarching spirit of inclusion. That being the case, we have NO PROBLEM likewise endorsing Thomas Paine as a true brother; and, in fact, our unofficial "school song" is that Rage Against the Machine mantra about the "mighty renegades of funk," including specifically "Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King." :) I promise I am not making any of this up. Our name is SUPPOSED to draw attention to us, in the sphere of religion and cultural diversity. I'm glad it did. For anyone who desires to know more, please "visit" our campus -- davejohnson419.wix.com/thomas-paine-college
AS A hardworking seeker (& far from a saint), I hold a dual doctorate in public policy AND comparative religion -- yet I have NO IDEA why you would so strenuously and stridently object to my self-identifying descriptor, "ultra-liberal." I was just trying to be honest. :) I should at least receive SOME POINTS for not sneaking up on you.~ I sit nightly (and reverently) around the same campfires of fellowship of the Iroquois Confederacy which lit the foundational fires for this very nation and the wick to its precious lamp of liberty. -- Doc Dave/Dr. Dave Johnson/national chair/Democratic Socialist Party, Key West, Fla.*
I'm only in 8th grade and I'm not the tech type,nor a history type,and I'm already having to make some random test out of this video for my teacher,hope he enjoys my little massive questioning test!
Good summation, but with one glaring fact missing: Thomas Paine was not a christian man, he was a deist (barely) and a self-taught skeptic. He did not believe that morality was ground on the christian god's existence. “Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.” "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.” “The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most dishonourable belief against the character of the divinity, the most destructive to morality, and the peace and happiness of man, that ever was propagated since man began to exist. It is better, far better, that we admitted, if it were possible, a thousand devils to roam at large, and to preach publicly the doctrine of devils, if there were any such, than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God in his mouth, and have credit among us. Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death and religious wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called revealed religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man? The lies of the Bible have been the cause of the one, and the lies of the Testament of the other.” Look those quotes up and do more research on him before you descend on me in the comments. Know that he was spurned after the revolution for these stances. Read "Age of Reason" for a real look at the man.
ad ho·mi·nemˌ(adverb & adjective/adverb) ad hominem 1. (of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining."vicious ad hominem attacks" Care to address the facts that I've cited instead? Or would you rather do what you're doing?
No worries. I am the founder of Thomas Paine College, a small Christian college in Key West, Fla., and I certainly concur you have credibly summed up the life narrative of Paine and his (lack of) Christian belief(s).
Christopher Schneider That is exactly why I like Thomas Paine. He didn't believe that you needed to base your morality and ethics on such a spurious source as the bible. Those quotations that you sight are ones I fully agree with.
Thank you for the video! Quick question about 0:25: I was under the impression that the First Continental Congress had met in 1774 in response to the Intolerable Acts, and that the 2nd Continental Congress had met in 1775 when they appointed George Washington to command the Continental Army. Do I have that wrong?
I just bought the book. I am reading it now. 8/1/2022 This book should be required reading in the American schools. It is as advertised. Common Sense, with a background of governments around the world at the time. I highly recommend buying the book, reading it and encourage your friends to get a copy too. We live in troubled times right now. Thomas Paine reminds me why I Love America and the Liberty she provides her citizens.
No, you should listen to James Chalmers, in his response to Thomas Paine and his "Common Sense"; James response is found in "Plain Truth", and he rebukes Paine, by saying what he wrote was invalid and barberic.
A timely book then; now we need spirituality. "The master-teachers are the expounders of divine common sense which is the pathway to a knowledge of universal law, the result of which will be a harmonious humanity." ~ Abdu’l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, Baha'i Faith
really wish you would hav gone into more detail on what each section talked about, so i dont have to read all 80 pages of it for my paper, thanks anyways for the summary, its helped a lot
I had whole debate blow up my Facebook page about Revolutionary War, whether it was an American vs the English, or just another English civil war. I am an American. My English friend and I was trying to tell my other American friend. There was no America as a country during war. We were all English. No matter what you told him; such as 13 Colonies belong to England or British Empire. A lot of Colonists saw themselves as English, and etc. He didn't want to see that. In his mind the Colonies were on North America continent there forth the Colonies did not belong to England. The moment we declare Independent we were Americans. (No, still English. The king hadn't sign the papers saying we were our independent country l, until 1783, ) Watching this video just proves my English's and mine point. It's sad we Americans are so clueless about our history. Paul Revere didn't yell "the British were coming!" But instead "the Regulars were coming!"
Hi. I don't mean to criticize, but I think there's a historical inaccuracy in your video! The First Continental Congress actually gathered in 1774. The Second Continental Congress gathered in May of 1775, and that's when George Washington was appointed commander in chief of the Continental Army. I just wanted to point that out.
America needs another Thomas Paine right now, a 2nd “Common Sense”….2nd Revolution. I believe the states would be better independent rather than being “United” America has become a New England
common sense renewed, by RC Christian (pseudonym) which us supposedly in trubute to Thomas Paines common sense, is an ideological opposite to common sense
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the events of a few months. The reflection is awful, and in this point of view, how trifling, how ridiculous, do the little paltry cavilings of a few weak or interested men appear, when weighed against the business of a world.
I don't agree with Paine at all. His radicalism helped create what we have today, and America is in sad shape. He encouraged this betrayal, and not only that, they didn't want to pay their taxes to help pay back the expense the Britain owed now that they went to war and helped to protect these Revolutionaries from Indians and war...they were totally ungrateful, but took advantage of Britain by backing out and going on their own declaring not to help pay back the protection that good Britain gave to them. That is total disgusting. These revolutionairs were crude and it is written over and over again, even the so many of the Revolutionaries did not want to be Indepent who came here to this country.
This is what I call REAL teaching! :)
This is impeccable historical information. I wonder if our President’s have this in mind when they are in the office. This man single handedly helped set the guidelines to American independence.
ALL of America needs to learn this in 2023!
Greed is the ONLY the U.S.A. understands......until that changes our society is doomed
Thanks for the upload. Precise, concise, and informative. Regards!
The intellect it must have took to take the leap of unbelief before even evolution was known about
When I was in middle school, you couldn't get me to learn about government history. Now that I'm an old man...😌
old man hahaha
I’m so thankful that my interest in the revolution and the founders was sparked at an incredibly early age. Learning about what they had done, and reading what they had written really helped me to understand what good government could be, and was supposed to be. It certainly helped me to understand my rights and responsibilities as a citizen, and to avoid buying into the kinds of things schools try to indoctrinate kids with these days, which have turned many a young man or woman into a liberal right in front of my eyes. Thankfully, because of my natural curiosity, and my parents encouraging and fostering my interest, I managed to avoid that grim fate. Seeing what the founders believed and envisioned really highlights how corrupted our government has become. I hope we both live to see the tides turn, and can watch this country become what it was always destined to be: the greatest and freest nation on earth. I pray we’ll get to see and experience true freedom in our lifetimes, and can create a better, freer nation than the one we inherited, to leave to our own progeny. God willing.
@@CivilizedWarriorif only we had more youth like yourself. Tictok and other social media platforms is allowing foreign countries to indoctrinate and tear our nation apart. How we have arrived at the travesty of Biden Harris and as many who voted and will vote for her greatly concerns me for our future as a democratic republic.
Same with me.
Superb. Using it for a freshman-level college course. GREAT, and thanks.
I'm from Brazil and started studying the american history out of curiosity. Your video was concise and very helpful. Thanks and good work
I really like the way this book talks about the evils of government
"people shcould not br afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people
Truth... So many people are unaware of real history. I never knew about Paine until 6 years ago. Whst we are going through today is exactly what went down in 1776. We need to share to others about Thomas Paine. Trump was good for America. He is a threat to globalists. We need to fight quickly...
@@ryangrumbles2216 what we are going through is nothing like 1776. Just like Trump you attempt to use the “so many people” are unaware of history to shift your own lack of knowledge onto others. You’ve perfectly demonstrated your own need for psychological projection to avoid facing your own inadequacies. Just. Like. Trump has done his entire life. Trump was not good for America, if for no other reason than he is uneducated and is completely lacking in knowledge of history. He’s never been anything more than a used car salesman catering to and fueling those who are desperate to find someone to be angry at in order to avoid looking at themselves. A pathological liar and disinformation spinster is not good for America. America deserves the truth, not a disinformation or propaganda performer who just wants the attention he didn’t receive as a child. He wouldn’t know Thomas Paine from Tom Petty.
“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
-Thomas Paine
@@ryangrumbles2216if you think trump is a threat to the globalist , than you my friend are so far gone. He is a globalist
This helped me get past my writers block and start writing my essay on common sense. Thanks!
Can you email me your essay? lmao
This is a great summary thanks!!
agreed
He had beyond progressive and moral ideas ... "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine ~ Baha'i Thought
They were not progressive.
@Mike burner He's not comparing the conservatives of now moron, that's why he said the conservatives "of that time." As you yourself point it out in the comment conservatism and progressivism are situational and putting him in the situation of that time Paine was absolutely progressive and you even show how he was progressive he was in your comment with his open advocation civil liberties (not to mention his anti-slavery views).
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Those not smart enough to view the past through the prism of the past will not understand history, nor will they understand enough to prevent the reproduction of it's horrors
WE USE THIS as part of our curriculum at Thomas Paine College, Key West, Fla., a small online Christian college. Thanks!!~
+Dave Johnson This has to be a joke, right? Why would a Christian college name itself after Thomas Paine??
Erin, I IMMENSELY appreciate your interest, & your Question: Both are very intelligent. It is not so much a joke, as a conundrum. Thomas Paine was indeed extremely hostile to religion throughout much of his life, but there were quieter occasions of compromise when he embraced a mutated sort of deism, wholeheartedly accepting spirituality if not religion. Thomas Paine College is a theological, ultra-liberal and unique institution, couched firmly in The Christian Left and overarching spirit of inclusion. That being the case, we have NO PROBLEM likewise endorsing Thomas Paine as a true brother; and, in fact, our unofficial "school song" is that Rage Against the Machine mantra about the "mighty renegades of funk," including specifically "Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King." :) I promise I am not making any of this up. Our name is SUPPOSED to draw attention to us, in the sphere of religion and cultural diversity. I'm glad it did. For anyone who desires to know more, please "visit" our campus -- davejohnson419.wix.com/thomas-paine-college
"Ultra-liberal" ??? What an embarrassing confession. Such a phrase is similar to "ultra-brain-dead" ..... disgusting.
AS A hardworking seeker (& far from a saint), I hold a dual doctorate in public policy AND comparative religion -- yet I have NO IDEA why you would so strenuously and stridently object to my self-identifying descriptor, "ultra-liberal." I was just trying to be honest. :) I should at least receive SOME POINTS for not sneaking up on you.~ I sit nightly (and reverently) around the same campfires of fellowship of the Iroquois Confederacy which lit the foundational fires for this very nation and the wick to its precious lamp of liberty. -- Doc Dave/Dr. Dave Johnson/national chair/Democratic Socialist Party, Key West, Fla.*
So by paying 280$ and writing a 10 page dissertation I can get a PhD from your online college? How is this even legal?!?!?
Just what I needed to know for my upcoming exam. Thanks for posting.
this makes my essay so much easier, thank you.
I'm only in 8th grade and I'm not the tech type,nor a history type,and I'm already having to make some random test out of this video for my teacher,hope he enjoys my little massive questioning test!
me too, is it because of remote learning????
epic
Very well stated. Thank you so much for this video - it gave me a bit of inspiration for my own history paper!
Emira Ikanovic mine to
Good summation, but with one glaring fact missing: Thomas Paine was not a christian man, he was a deist (barely) and a self-taught skeptic. He did not believe that morality was ground on the christian god's existence.
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.”
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most dishonourable belief against the character of the divinity, the most destructive to morality, and the peace and happiness of man, that ever was propagated since man began to exist. It is better, far better, that we admitted, if it were possible, a thousand devils to roam at large, and to preach publicly the doctrine of devils, if there were any such, than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God in his mouth, and have credit among us.
Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death and religious wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called revealed religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man? The lies of the Bible have been the cause of the one, and the lies of the Testament of the other.”
Look those quotes up and do more research on him before you descend on me in the comments. Know that he was spurned after the revolution for these stances. Read "Age of Reason" for a real look at the man.
ad ho·mi·nemˌ(adverb & adjective/adverb) ad hominem 1. (of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining."vicious ad hominem attacks"
Care to address the facts that I've cited instead? Or would you rather do what you're doing?
*snort* of course you didn't
No worries. I am the founder of Thomas Paine College, a small Christian college in Key West, Fla., and I certainly concur you have credibly summed up the life narrative of Paine and his (lack of) Christian belief(s).
I see nothing false in your instructional comments...
Christopher Schneider That is exactly why I like Thomas Paine. He didn't believe that you needed to base your morality and ethics on such a spurious source as the bible. Those quotations that you sight are ones I fully agree with.
Freedom is never free
I recently learned about thomas paine. I feel sad that only 6 people paid their respect at his funeral. two mind you were "black"
Melanie Edwards
Amen sis
We been here. If only white folks realized we are all the same facing the same issue us middle and lower class people face against elites.
Ty bro 🤜🤜 still strong after like 6yrs
sure do love this history, man
what a life-saver. thank you!
Thank you for the video! Quick question about 0:25: I was under the impression that the First Continental Congress had met in 1774 in response to the Intolerable Acts, and that the 2nd Continental Congress had met in 1775 when they appointed George Washington to command the Continental Army. Do I have that wrong?
Please send the pdf
I just bought the book. I am reading it now. 8/1/2022 This book should be required reading in the American schools.
It is as advertised. Common Sense, with a background of governments around the world at the time.
I highly recommend buying the book, reading it and encourage your friends to get a copy too. We live in troubled times
right now. Thomas Paine reminds me why I Love America and the Liberty she provides her citizens.
To thomas paine, what was common sense and why
Thank you fellow scholar
Thank you for your informative video 🙏
he instigated the revolutionary war. rest in peace fellow patriot
thanks a lot
helped me a lot in my exam
No, you should listen to James Chalmers, in his response to Thomas Paine and his "Common Sense"; James response is found in "Plain Truth", and he rebukes Paine, by saying what he wrote was invalid and barberic.
Why did Paine move to the Colonies?
Truly a man ahead of his time.
A timely book then; now we need spirituality. "The master-teachers are the expounders of divine common sense which is the pathway to a knowledge of universal law, the result of which will be a harmonious humanity." ~ Abdu’l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, Baha'i Faith
check out ask and it is given!
Without Thomas Paine the United States, actually the world would most likely be a much different place.
really helpful glad i could use this for my lecture
I love the way you teach! More content please
Was paine's book common sense so important to the American revolution?
really wish you would hav gone into more detail on what each section talked about, so i dont have to read all 80 pages of it for my paper, thanks anyways for the summary, its helped a lot
Thanks for this.
imagine if thomas paine was reborn and looked at the us today
I had whole debate blow up my Facebook page about Revolutionary War, whether it was an American vs the English, or just another English civil war.
I am an American. My English friend and I was trying to tell my other American friend. There was no America as a country during war. We were all English.
No matter what you told him; such as 13 Colonies belong to England or British Empire. A lot of Colonists saw themselves as English, and etc. He didn't want to see that. In his mind the Colonies were on North America continent there forth the Colonies did not belong to England. The moment we declare Independent we were Americans. (No, still English. The king hadn't sign the papers saying we were our independent country l, until 1783, )
Watching this video just proves my English's and mine point.
It's sad we Americans are so clueless about our history.
Paul Revere didn't yell "the British were coming!" But instead "the Regulars were coming!"
Hi. I don't mean to criticize, but I think there's a historical inaccuracy in your video!
The First Continental Congress actually gathered in 1774.
The Second Continental Congress gathered in May of 1775, and that's when George Washington was appointed commander in chief of the Continental Army.
I just wanted to point that out.
Great video!! Understandable and well-explained
the DOI was written six months later not five. :)
Thank you
America needs another Thomas Paine right now, a 2nd “Common Sense”….2nd Revolution.
I believe the states would be better independent rather than being “United”
America has become a New England
thanks for the info
Just to be clear, independence was fought for against Britain which includes, but is not, England.
The least patriotic member of his home country, ironically amongst the most for his adopted country. Has there been a better immigrant than TP?
I feel that civics needs to return to the curriculum and that reading of Thomas Paine should be Mandate of curriculum
Love how you can tell this was made on iMovie
Did Paine see a son or daughter?
Even in 2019 this book is a good read
common sense renewed, by RC Christian (pseudonym) which us supposedly in trubute to Thomas Paines common sense, is an ideological opposite to common sense
End the FED, Check the DHS.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the events of a few months. The reflection is awful, and in this point of view, how trifling, how ridiculous, do the little paltry cavilings of a few weak or interested men appear, when weighed against the business of a world.
Bro wanna hire a editer ????
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I don't agree with Paine at all. His radicalism helped create what we have today, and America is in sad shape. He encouraged this betrayal, and not only that, they didn't want to pay their taxes to help pay back the expense the Britain owed now that they went to war and helped to protect these Revolutionaries from Indians and war...they were totally ungrateful, but took advantage of Britain by backing out and going on their own declaring not to help pay back the protection that good Britain gave to them. That is total disgusting. These revolutionairs were crude and it is written over and over again, even the so many of the Revolutionaries did not want to be Indepent who came here to this country.
"Britain had just won a major war"
1774/5 ... Waterloo 1815.
Ummm
anyone else here from core 4?
am I the only one who can't really understand what he is saying?
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@@M11B222INF_LC Bernie probably won't even live to see 2020 at this rate.
Thomas Paine was an atheist but he makes lots of references to god because he knows that will help persuade many people.