RE: The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

The passage I just read was the American Crisis. It lays out the arguments of Thomas Paine on why America should be fully independent from Britain. One of his arguments is that God himself wouldn't let America lose. "God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to parish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent," (pg. 52 AR). Before the war started, America had done everything to avoid the war. Patrick Henry wrote about how America did everything to please their lords. They petitioned, supplications, and even prayed. But everything was ignored by the British crown. But Paine didn't want a select few to join his argument, he wanted everyone. "I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state," (pg. 52 AR). It's interesting that Paine thought if everyone didn't join America would not win the war, because he previously stated that God would not let them win. If God truly didn't want, or wouldn't let America lose, then not everyone would need to be behind the idea of independence.