WAYNE CHIRNSIDE said to DAVID RAGLAND,

WC>-> Voltaire boasted he would expose the Bible and that it would be
WC>-> buried in  obscurity. Some time after his death, Voltaire s house
WC>-> was purchased by the  International Bible Society and used as a
WC>-> warehouse. 

WC>-> Imagine that . . . 

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

WC>Seems he was onto something.

After the Earthquake that devastated Florence, Voltaire wrote a satire 
of the "God says these are the best of times" philosophers.
He had a savage wit and he used it.

From Archae's Roost, Sheboygan, WI

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