Originally Posted by Wayne Delia

I'm not sure about that, but it has had the most profound effect on my life of any book, and reading it was primarily responsible for my shift from former born-again Christian to strong atheism. Not only that, it nearly got me kicked out of our community chorus because we held rehearsals in a Unitarian Universalist church meeting room, and their library included Paine's The Age of Reason, which I found much more interesting than the music we were rehearsing.

WMD