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echo: holysmoke
to: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
from: DAVID RICE
date: 2005-06-12 11:48:00
subject: Voltaire

-=> Quoting Wayne Chirnside to David Ragland <=-

>DR2> Voltaire boasted he would expose the Bible and that it

WC> Voltaire lived to I believe 86 in an age
WC> when that was ancient. He did so by drinking,
WC> womanizing, gambling, insulting philosophers,
WC> the church, government, ect.. Seems he was
WC> onto something. 

He lived long and well, even though Ragland's cult
would have cheerfully tortured him to death if it
had been able to imprison him the second time. He
wrote the first part of "The Age of Reason" while
in a prison cell, a victim of compassion, awaiting
decapitation.


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