Question: What English and American political activist wrote a book that helped Joseph L. Lewis leave theism?
Context: Joseph Lewis (June 11, 1889 – November 4, 1968) was an American freethinker and atheist activist, publisher, and litigator.  During the mid-twentieth century, he was one of America’s most conspicuous public atheists, the other being Emanuel Haldeman-Julius.  Born in Montgomery, Alabama to a Jewish family, he was forced by poverty to leave school at the age of nine to find employment.  He read avidly, becoming self-educated.  Lewis developed his ideas from reading, among others, Robert G. Ingersoll, whose published works made him aware of Thomas Paine.  He later credited Paine's "The Age of Reason" with helping him leave theism. Die Nigger Die!  is a 1969 political autobiography by the American political activist H. Rap Brown (now known as Jamil Abdullah al-Amin).  The book was first released in the United States in 1969 (by Dial Press) and then in the United Kingdom in 1970 (by Allison & Busby).  Brown describes his experiences as a young black civil rights activist and how they shaped his opinions of white America.  He expresses his opinions on what he believes black Americans need to do to break free from white oppression.  As a Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and from 1968 a member of the Black Panther Party, he was heavily involved with organizations that espoused a Black Power ideology. John Henley Heathcote-Williams (15 November 1941 – 1 July 2017), known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist.  He wrote a number of book-length polemical poems including "Autogeddon", "Falling for a Dolphin" and "Whale Nation", which in 1988 became, according to Philip Hoare, "the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling."  Williams invented his idiosyncratic "documentary/investigative poetry" style which he put to good purpose bringing a diverse range of environmental and political matters to public attention.  His last published work, "American Porn" was a critique of the American political establishment and the election of President Donald Trump: Publication date was the date of Trump's inauguration (20 January 2017).  In June 2015, he published a book-length investigative poem about the "Muslim Gandhi", Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, "Badshah Khan". The New Alliance Party (NAP) was an American political party formed in New York City in 1979.  Its immediate precursor was an umbrella organization known as the Labor Community Alliance for Change, whose member groups included the coalition of Grass Roots Women and the New York City Unemployed and Welfare Council.  All of these groups were associated with controversial psychologist and political activist Fred Newman, whose radical health care collective Centers for Change and Marxist International Workers Party were active in grassroots politics in New York City.  The NAP's first chairperson was then-South Bronx City Councilman Gilberto Gerena-Valentin, a veteran Puerto Rican political activist.  .  The party is notable for getting African American psychologist Lenora Fulani on the ballot in all 50 states during her first Presidential campaign in 1988, making her both the first African-American and woman to do so. The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of Deism.  It follows in the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible.  It was published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807.  It was a best-seller in the United States, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival.  British audiences, however, fearing increased political radicalism as a result of the French Revolution, received it with more hostility.  "The Age of Reason" presents common deistic arguments; for example, it highlights what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power.  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".  It promotes natural religion and argues for the existence of a creator-God. Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born August 25, 1948, Trier) is a German political activist, wife of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche, and founder of the LaRouche movement's Schiller Institute and the German "Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität" party ("BüSo") (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity). Alvin Plantinga's free will defense is a logical argument developed by American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga, the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, and published in its final version in his 1977 book "God, Freedom, and Evil".  Plantinga's argument is a defense against the logical problem of evil as formulated by philosopher J. L. Mackie beginning in 1955.  Mackie's formulation of the logical problem of evil argued that three attributes of God, omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence, in orthodox Christian theism are logically incompatible with the existence of evil.  In 1982, Mackie conceded that Plantinga's defense successfully refuted his argument in "The Miracle of Theism," though he did not claim that the problem of evil had been put to rest. John C. Rensenbrink is an American political scientist, philosopher, journalist, educational innovator, and political activist.  He has initiated and helped found many organizations, the most prominent of which are the Maine Green Party (1984); the Green Party of the United States (1984-87) for both of which he was a principal founder; and CREA (the Cathance River Education Alliance) 2000 to the present, a hands-on ecological education project for local schools, schoolchildren and high school students in mid-coast Maine. Williamson M. "Bill" Evers (born October 18, 1948) is an American political activist and education researcher.  In 1988, he became a resident scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution—first as a national fellow, then a visiting scholar, and most recently a research fellow there and at The Independent Institute.  He went on leave from Hoover to serve as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development in the United States Department of Education during 2007-2009.  In November 2016, he was selected to lead President Elect Trump's transition team for the Department of Education. John Burman (5 October 1838 – 14 May 1900) was an English first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, scoring a duck and a vital 1 not out against Cambridgeshire at Queens Park, Wisbech in 1867.  That was his only first-class run, and his only contribution to the game, but it was a heroic innings as he was last man in, and helped Joseph Rowbotham take the score from 76 for 9, to the 91 they needed to complete a one wicket win.
Answer: Thomas Paine