What does the first stanza of "some keep the sabbath going to church" suggest about the speaker’s view of religious customs? she does not believe in creating religious customs. she participates in religious customs in an unconventional way. she finds religious customs to be tedious. she participates only in religious customs that relate to nature.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

a term is used to describe a sudden revelation in a short story is "showing forth".