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French Enlightenment Writer, Historian, and Philosopher, Famous for his Wit, and his Criticism of Christianity?especially the Roman Catholic Church?and of Slavery, and an Advocate of Freedom of Speech and of Religion
: A French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (/v?l?t??r, vo?l-/; also US: /v??l-/; French: [v?lt???]), he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity?especially the Roman Catholic Church?and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #5 on Religious Struggle Quotes >> Religious Powers and Intolerance
“I say it with a shudder, but it is true; it is we Christians who have been the persecutors, the executioners, the assassins. And who were our victims? Our brothers. It is we who have destroyed a hundred towns, the crucifix or Bible in our hands, and have incessantly shed blood and lit flames from the reign of Constantine to the fury of the cannibals of the Cévènes.”
Source: Page 185.
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