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Hayseed: We have come to the inescapable conclusion that you , for your own safety and the well being of the entire internet, should immediately and forever give up the *Voltairian hope that you are actually not a danger to the rest of us ( just kidding..really!!!..even nerds have a sense of humor...Ah honey, where is my pocket protector??!! ;^)
" God is a comedian who is playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh," ~Voltaire "There
are truths that are not for all men, nor for all occasions." Voltaire drank 70 cups of coffee every day." (That would be one
every 20 minutes, Voltaire
often is attributed with having said: "I disapprove "Of all the intellectual weapons that have been wielded by man, the most terrible was the mockery of Voltaire. Bigots and tyrants who had never been moved by the wailings and cursing of millions, turned pale at his name," said Lord Macaulay. And the magnificent Ingersoll, who carried the torch so brilliantly lighted by this courageous warrior, said that at the mention of Voltaire's name, the mask of hypocrisy would fall from the face of every priest and hypocrite. Since priests still practice hypocrisy and fraud, and prey upon the ignorant and the credulous; since religion still teaches us to hate one another, and by the use of force prevents the acquisition of knowledge and retards the material progress of man -- let us resolve now, as a debt of gratitude to the memory of this great humanitarian and lover of mankind -- this great Freethinker this incomparable Infidel -- never to cease mentioning the name of Voltaire and so help to "Crush the Infamous" Mozart, the musician, in a letter to his father, said this: "The moment the symphony was over, I went off in my joy, to the Palais-Royal, where I took a good ice, told over my beads, as I had vowed, and went home, where I am always happiest. I must give you a piece of intelligence, that you perhaps already know: namely, that the ungodly arch-villain, Voltaire, has died miserably, like a dog -- just like a brute." [Italics mine.] This of the man who said that whoever destroys a theater is an enemy to his country. Mozart's letter proves two things. One, that Voltaire died as he had lived, an infidel; second, that a man may be a great musician and still be a bigot and utterly ignorant of the very fundamentals of human freedom, especially when his mind has been so contaminated with religious prejudice that it is unable to function except in one direction. The religious poison that was inculcated in him while on his mother's knee could not be eradicated by his symphonies. No, Voltaire did not die like a dog, as that expression is supposed to indicate; he died just as serenely as the coming of the dawn. And if Mozart were living today he would see statues to Voltaire throughout all France, and above the entrance of the Hotel de Ville, the City Hall of Paris, stands the figure of Voltaire as the symbol of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. In his last moments priests, like vultures, intruded themselves upon him as representatives of God. Voltaire politely asked them for their credentials. When they persisted and continued their annoyance he feebly instructed his valet to assure them of his respect, and with a gesture for them to depart, closed his eyes for the last time on May 30, 1778, with these words upon his lips: "Let me die in peace." And he did. Voltaire's influence upon the leaders of the American Revolution, so brilliantly exemplified by Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, and Paine, makes America deeply indebted to him as one of our liberators. Voltaire died on Decoration Day -- and no American can pay tribute to our honored dead without mentioning the name of Voltaire.
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