THE AGE OF REASON

The age of reason began in Europe with the philosophers and scientist of the XVII and XVIII century, who called themselves rationalists. Rationalism is the belief that human beings can arrive at truth.
The rationalists saw God differently. The great English rationalist Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727),who formulated the laws of gravity and motion, compared God to a clockmaker. The rationalist believed that God  special gift to humanity was reason.

From the earliest colonial days, Americans had to be generalists and tinkerers; they had to make do with what the had, and they had to achieve results.
One of the most important radicals who analyzed the rationalism and the religion in that time was Thomas Paine, who wrote the book "The Age Of Reason".