Question

Read this excerpt from Thomas Paine's famous essay "The Crisis Number One":

I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he.

Which sentence best describes Paine's claim in the excerpt?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

• In the given excerpt we can see that the author Thomas Paine is acually saying that the Almighty God would never just give up on people who will be destroyed by the military, God will also never support them in any way which will make them perish easily.
• God is always all benevolent and always good, you must remember that God never takes sides since he was the creator of humanity and hence we get to see that when it comes to American and british colonists, he would choose neither.