Lately, I have been reading a lot of American literature especially by  Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine.
Really, how interesting; whats been your favorite?
Thomas Paine by far. He has inspired me to read about the rebels in 1776 and the independence from Britain
You know, Im of British Heritage, My Great,Great, Great, Great .... Grandmother was Great grandmother to Henery the VIII. 
Wow thats incredible! I believe Henry the VIII is responsible for the age of reason, and the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism!
I think you right. Im just Happy to be related to Prince William and Prince Harry, on both their Mother's and Father's side. Inbreeding at its best I suppos!
Perhaps so, but we digress! One must be careful when taking the name of the British Royal family in vain!
So so you believe that Henery was a sincere Deist, or do you think it was all just an easy way to control his populas?
the universe by miracles. It also rejects revelation as a source of religious knowledge and asserts that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of a single creator or absolute principle of the universe.
Deism as a form of natural theology gained prominence among intellectuals during the Age of Enlightenment, especially in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Typically, deists had been raised as Christians and believed in one God, but had become disenchanted with organized religion and orthodox teachings such as the
and a propagandist by inclination".
Born in Thetford in the English county of Norfolk, Paine migrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every rebel read (or listened to a reading of) his powerful pamphlet "Common Sense" (1776), proportionally the all-time best-selling American title, which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain. His "The American Crisis" (1776–1783) was