RE: A.S.K. your way to proof.
May 5, 2020 at 11:01 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2020 at 11:05 am by Mister Agenda.)
(May 4, 2020 at 12:47 pm)Drich Wrote:(April 30, 2020 at 12:53 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Did Voltaire say the words 'I do not believe God is real'?in the post above he is quoted in saying both:
He had an altar in his home in Ferney with the dedication Erexit deo Voltaire (Raised for God by Voltaire). And he used the Watchmaker Argument to argue for design.
therefore God is the contrary of what they proclaim,
[b]therefore there is no God; [/b]
I had thought perhaps you merely failed to completely comprehend your sources, but that quote mine shows you a liar. The full quote:
These inconceivable absurdities revolt weak and rash minds, as well as wise and resolute minds. They say: "Our masters paint God to us as the most insensate and the most barbarous of all beings; therefore there is no God; but they should say: therefore our masters attribute to God their absurdities and their furies, therefore God is the contrary of what they proclaim, therefore God is as wise and as good as they make him out mad and wicked. It is thus that wise men account for things. But if a bigot hears them, he denounces them to a magistrate who is a watchdog of the priests; and this watchdog has them burned over a slow fire, in the belief that he is avenging and imitating the divine majesty he outrages.
Edit: I see Paleophyte beat me to this.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.