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-Questions in NB (see below Age of Reason Introduction)
-Four Corners
-Age of Reason Overview/Discussion
-WITCH HUNT! (Hunt, Organizer)
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Age of Reason Introduction
Directions: Choose three of the following quotations by Thomas Paine, a leading thinker in the Age of Reason. Explain what each quotation means and discuss how it presents a worldview that is different than the Puritan worldview.
- “All national institutions of churches [...] appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind.”
- “My own mind is my own church.”
- “It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.”
- “The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.”
- “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
- “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
Homework:
-Update Vocab with this Week's Age of Reason Vocab
-Essay due Friday at midnight
Learning Target:
-I will be able to explain the difference between Age of Reason and Puritan thinking.