RE: Favourite Atheists
February 8, 2014 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2014 at 10:58 am by xpastor.)
(February 8, 2014 at 9:05 am)Drich Wrote: Voltaire, he predicted the end of Christianity with in 100 years of his death. Ironically the Geneva bible society bought his house and used it to distribute bibles out of. I like Voltaire because he is the father of 'epic fail.'I guess you don't know, Voltaire was NOT an atheist. He was a Deist. He once wrote, " It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason."
He was anti-Christian and especially anti-Catholic. However, that is not the same as being an atheist.
No one mentioned Robert G. Ingersoll!
He was the best-known freethinker of 19th century America, and he did more to popularize skepticism than any other person of that era.
His output amounts to 12 volumes, and most of it is still fresh and up to date even more than a century after his death.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
