Voltaire+P1

=VOLTAIRE=

= = ==-He criticized the church on the grounds that it was overly superstitious. This is important because he was trying to explain that the church was not telling the truth. He thought the church was teaching people what they believe in, not what actually happened. Because he criticized the church he was sent to prison. During that time in jail, he was writing a book.== ==- Voltaire decries supernaturalism and denounces religion. Which means that he thinks that anything that is not real, does not exist at all. He blames the church for making stuff up about the world. He also thinks that everything can be explained by scientific knowledge about the world.== ==-Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world”. He thinks that Christianity is horrible. He thinks that it should not exist at all, no matter what they say about it. He wants this religion to be destroyed at once and vanish off the face of this world. [|Voltaire]- found Voltaire's ideas [|Voltarie On Church]-What he thought about the church== ==-We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard." Voltaire is trying to say that we can write anything we want to. When we write we are willing to write what we think at our own risks. Also, he believes that people should write without anyone telling that we can’t. [|Voltaire's freedom of speech]- where we found his opinion of speech.==

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