Paine was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical intellectual, and skeptic. Born in Great Britain, he lived and died in America. He also lived in France, where the French Revolution strongly influenced his ideas. Celebrated for his philosophical and revolutionary writings, he became notorious with the publication of his book, The Age of Reason, in which he wrote: “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.”