This work's main sections assert that Jesus did not mean to establish a religion and note the similarities between pagan and Christian stories.  
Its second part is an intricate analysis of biblical authorship, and its first part includes a tangent which posits that the teaching of classical languages is an outdated form of education.  This work's main sections assert that Jesus did not mean to establish a religion and note the similarities between pagan and Christian stories.  Predicting that the recent political revolution in which the author participated will lead to a religious revolution, it marks all religions as false, positing a god whose only revelation is "the creation we behold."  FTP, name this landmark tract of deism, written by Thomas Paine, which shares its name with an epithet assigned to the time period in which it was published.
Its second part is an intricate analysis of biblical authorship, and its first part includes a tangent which posits that the teaching of classical languages is an outdated form of education.  
The Age of Reason