Paine's indictment of religion is well documented. Atheists embrace him. Interesting that way back he said

"The only people who, as a professional sect of Christians provide for the poor of their society, are people known by the name of Quakers. Those men have no priests. They assemble quietly in their places of meeting, and do not disturb their neighbours with shows and noise of bells. Religion does not unite itself to show and noise. True religion is without either. Where there is both there is no true religion."

Paine, had he been alive in the days of the Witch Trials would surely have been hanged.