• Re: VOLTAIRE (Francois Marie Arouet) 18th century French philosopher, w

    From 26B.X958@21:1/5 to Tall Henry on Mon May 15 23:57:04 2023
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc, alt.revisionism

    On 5/15/23 5:54 PM, Tall Henry wrote:
    Voltaire's antisemitism was part and parcel of his enormous hatred
    of Christianity:

    "Ours [i.e., the Christian religion] is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the most bloody religion which has ever infected this world. Your Majesty will do the human race an eternal service by extirpating this infamous superstition" (letter to Frederick II, King of Prussia, dated 5 January 1767).

    Indeed he was NOT fond of religions - reason/evidence
    was much more to his liking.

    But this didn't make him a 'fascist' - hadn't been
    invented yet regardless.

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