-> >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.

I've always felt if Voltaire were dropped into this century
he'd be up to speed in no time.

On reading "The Complete Romances of Voltaire", most of what he said
about church and state applies just the same today as during his 
times IMO. 
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