The Age of Symbolism in Latvia by Silvana Editoriale

Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. This book, actually published in a series of pamphlets, is a perfect example of such a work it purports to free its readers from the captivity of tyranny in order to make society a more rational and therefore more honest place. It represents the efforts of brave men like himself and Galileo to bring hard truths to the brainwashed peoples of the world. Paine even views this work itself as a symbol. The Church is a symbol of manipulation and establishment of 'truth' based on nothing more than hearsay it is therefore the symbol of everything he's fighting against in this book. The worst tyranny of all, he says, is that of religion, so in The Age of Reason, he argues that the Church is a terrible tyrant that must be dealt with. He believes that the best society is a free one, so he undertakes the noble mission to free society from its constraints. Paine uses the Church itself as a symbol. This is a symbolic example of his description of the establishment of unprovable hearsay as dogma Jesus Christ, now the primary figure in 'Christ'-ianity, is no longer a symbol for salvation, but a symbol for manipulation. In this book, Paine argues that Jesus, while a verifiable historical figure, never made any claims to Godhood, and that these claims were later forced upon him by other writers. Paine uses Galileo as a symbol for all the brave men (including himself) who have stood up and will stand up against the tyranny of the Church in order to bring truth to the world. Galileo was a Florentine astronomer and mathematician who was persecuted for his counter-ecclesiastical theory that argued from reason and objective fact that the Earth orbits the Sun, and not the other way around, as had been traditionally accepted by the Church.

The assertion that God himself gave Moses these laws is no better than hearsay, and it is thus not to be believed. God supposedly gave Moses these Ten Commandments on two stone tablets on top of a mountain, and, as Paine says, these commandments are no better than those of any given lawmaker. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĪs he explains in Chapter 1, Paine believes the Ten Commandments to be a perfect example, and thus a symbol, of doctrine accepted as fact without any real evidence to support this acceptance.

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The Age of Symbolism in Latvia by Silvana Editoriale