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Thomas Paine is a pain alright. You've got to remember, a lot of these guys adopted names of previous famous people, or else they were direct descendants of people, because one of the founders of the Knights Templar, his last name was Payen, which of course, put it into the English and you've got Paine. The nine knights who founded the Templars, one of them was called Payen. And so, it's no coincidence that you end up with a Payen, or a Paine, who was a world revolutionary, because once he was finished, he came from England after trying to get revolutions going there.
They changed their name and anglicized it to Payen, then Paine. They (these professional revolutionaries) go all the way back to the founding of the Templars. Hugh de Payen means Hugh the Pagan. Kind of odd how the Pope would give a charter to Hugh the Pagan don't you think?
Someone made the laconic comment:
Given that Pagan originally meant something like country dweller - Paganus in Latin, I see no problem with the name or that the Pope would be concerned about the name. Popes do understand Latin you know.
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