Thomas Paine, colonial American pamphleteer, was a Deist -- who believed in "but one Deity, and [whose] religion consists in contemplating the power, wisdom, and benignity of the Deity in his works, and in endeavoring to imitate him in everything moral, scientifical, and mechanical."
Sounds like a very bad man, indeed. Dangerous in his own time; just as much in our own.
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