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==Religious Viewpoints==

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~~Thomas Edison was heavily influenced by [[Thomas Paine]]'s ''Age of Reason,'' and can be considered an adherent of Deism.~~

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~~Remarks made~~ by ~~Edison~~ in ~~advocacy of Deism;~~

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Late in life Thomas Edison was heavily influenced by [[Thomas Paine]]'s ''Age of Reason,'' but despite attempts to describe him as an atheist he remained a believer in God and rejected claims to the contrary.

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~~"Nature is what we know. We do not know~~ the ~~gods of religions~~. ~~And nature~~ is ~~not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me --~~ the ~~fabled God~~ of the ~~three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness~~, ~~love -- He also made the fish I catch and eat~~. ~~And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us -- nature did it all -- not the gods of the religions"~~

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Little is known about the religious beliefs of the young Thomas Edison, when he was most productive.

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