(June 16, 2016 at 10:20 am)Rhythm Wrote: I don't think that he had to. He could have said nothing. Satanic had a meaning apart from catholicism (and still does..even if it might seem silly to us today to use it to describe what we might see as the pinnacle of evil). In any case, he seems to have had no trouble speaking up in the excerpt you quoted.
The excerpt I quoted is from a letter, not a publication. It's difficult to say, if Voltaire could have said nothing about islam - the OP, despite providing the same quote 3 times, didn't find it prudent to include any context, so I guess we'll never know.
(June 16, 2016 at 10:20 am)Rhythm Wrote: Maybe, I'll never know, but what's the relevance?
The relevance is, that OP chose one particular opinion of Voltaire, in order to create another fear-mongering sh*t-and-run thread about islam. Voltaire was pretty vitriolic about all religions, so choosing his quote in order to malign islam in particular is dishonest, to say the least. If there was an attempt at a discussion in the OP, rather than just the quote over and over - I probably wouldn't mind. Alas - there isn't.
(June 16, 2016 at 10:20 am)Rhythm Wrote: Has islam changed, in those things he mentioned...since then?
I don't know - have black Africans changed since Gandhi's times? I mean - for all I know, they might be living in "nakedness", trying to get cows, in order to exchange them for wives.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
