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To: SirLinksalot

The quintessential Deist was Voltaire, yet he built a church on his estate and employed a priest to say mass in it. He served as Godfather to many children. He used the coloquialisms of the day that spoke of God's grace and God's will though he was one of the most precise users of language to ever live.

He also made clear to associates that he did it because he thought it helped keep the lower classes in line, and religious bigots off his back, not because he believed any of it himself. It's a matter of noblesse oblige

So9

10 posted on 02/22/2006 8:54:32 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (" I am just going outside, and may be some time.")

To: Servant of the 9

Yeah.

Washington was just as much a bullsh*** artist as Voltaire, huh?

11 posted on 02/22/2006 8:55:28 AM PST by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)

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