Voltaire wrote that if god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
https://vexingquestions.wordpress.com/20...existence/
Voltaire was not an atheist ... he was a deist, and there are many many references to that position.
https://www.academia.edu/8856361/Voltair...ion_of_god
As usual, Dripshit has no clue, nor education in, anything he says.
Was Voltaire an atheist ?
"No. Throughout his life he believed that the universe shows indications of having been designed by a supreme intelligence (he uses the ‘watchmaker’ argument). In his early Philosophical Letters, he asserted this position as an alternative to Pascal’s Christianity. (The belief in a supreme being, combined with rejection of any established religion, is generally called deism, a term already current in Voltaire’s time). But his religious views reflect his scepticism as to the scope of human knowledge: we can know that there is a God, but we can’t know very much about him. In his later writings, such as the story ‘Histoire de Jenni’ (‘The Story of Jenni’) his target is more commonly atheists such as Diderot and d’Holbach: he thought atheism was a danger to morality. " https://www.quora.com/Was-Voltaire-an-atheist
"He was not an atheist, in part because he thought that some minimal belief in a deity was useful for social cohesion. Voltaire’s God created the world, instilled in us a sense of good and evil, and then basically took a back seat. This is rational religion – known in the eighteenth century under the name of natural religion or deism – and it has no truck with metaphysics of any kind. Voltaire was a man of reason who loathed fanaticism, idolatry, superstition. That men can kill each other to defend some bit of religious doctrine which they scarcely understand is something he found repellent. And he reserved his greatest hatred for the clerics who exploited the credulity of believers to maintain their own power base. Voltaire wanted religion without the Church."
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/voltaire/
Maybe Drippy should stick to trying to tell us what a pericope is. Oh wait. Maybe not.
https://vexingquestions.wordpress.com/20...existence/
Voltaire was not an atheist ... he was a deist, and there are many many references to that position.
https://www.academia.edu/8856361/Voltair...ion_of_god
As usual, Dripshit has no clue, nor education in, anything he says.
Was Voltaire an atheist ?
"No. Throughout his life he believed that the universe shows indications of having been designed by a supreme intelligence (he uses the ‘watchmaker’ argument). In his early Philosophical Letters, he asserted this position as an alternative to Pascal’s Christianity. (The belief in a supreme being, combined with rejection of any established religion, is generally called deism, a term already current in Voltaire’s time). But his religious views reflect his scepticism as to the scope of human knowledge: we can know that there is a God, but we can’t know very much about him. In his later writings, such as the story ‘Histoire de Jenni’ (‘The Story of Jenni’) his target is more commonly atheists such as Diderot and d’Holbach: he thought atheism was a danger to morality. " https://www.quora.com/Was-Voltaire-an-atheist
"He was not an atheist, in part because he thought that some minimal belief in a deity was useful for social cohesion. Voltaire’s God created the world, instilled in us a sense of good and evil, and then basically took a back seat. This is rational religion – known in the eighteenth century under the name of natural religion or deism – and it has no truck with metaphysics of any kind. Voltaire was a man of reason who loathed fanaticism, idolatry, superstition. That men can kill each other to defend some bit of religious doctrine which they scarcely understand is something he found repellent. And he reserved his greatest hatred for the clerics who exploited the credulity of believers to maintain their own power base. Voltaire wanted religion without the Church."
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/voltaire/
Maybe Drippy should stick to trying to tell us what a pericope is. Oh wait. Maybe not.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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