Question: Joseph L. Lewis, was an American freethinker and atheist activist, publisher, and litigator, he later credited, The Age of Reason, a work with helping him leave theism, by which English and American political activist, arguing for the philosophical position of Deism?
Sentence (from "The Age of Reason"): Paine advocates reason in the place of revelation, leading him to reject miracles and to view the Bible as "an ordinary piece of literature rather than as a divinely inspired text".
Relevant evidence: No