To: TradicalRC
The death knell of religion has been sounding for centuries now, notably by those enlightened secularists; Machiavelli, Voltaire, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzche, Lenin et al.WRT Voltaire, atheist, French author, humanist, rationalist (1694 - 1778), he held up a copy of the Bible in the air and smugly proclaimed, "In 100 years this book will be forgotten and eliminated...". Shortly after his death, Voltaires private residence became the headquarters of the Geneva Bible Society and became a major distribution hub for the very Bible he assigned to extinction. It later became the headquarters for the British and Foreign Bible Society. This fool Frenchman made a vain boast. And now for eternity he shares the fate of all the fools who have continuously rejected God prior to their first death.
12 posted on
10/23/2005 6:19:04 AM PDT by
Cvengr
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To: Cvengr
WRT Voltaire, atheist, French author, humanist, rationalist (1694 - 1778), he held up a copy of the Bible in the air and smugly proclaimed, "In 100 years this book will be forgotten and eliminated...".
Heh, just like the maggots and worms that ate his rotting flesh have been long forgotten. What an arrogant sod.
To: Cvengr
...Voltaire..held up a copy of the Bible in the air and smugly proclaimed, "In 100 years this book will be forgotten and eliminated...". Shortly after his death, Voltaires private residence became the headquarters of the Geneva Bible Society and became a major distribution hub for the very Bible he assigned to extinction. It later became the headquarters for the British and Foreign Bible Society. He who sitteth in the heavens, shall surely have the last laugh.
This fool Frenchman made a vain boast. And now for eternity he shares the fate of all the fools who have continuously rejected God prior to their first death.
Maybe not. It is reported that, on his deathbead, Voltaire spent his final hours "screaming" for a priest -- which his Masonic friends refused to fetch for him. But God knows the heart.
25 posted on
10/28/2005 10:40:48 PM PDT by
Rytwyng
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