You can tell from Voltaire's writings that he is frustrated and angry. He lived in a time where people weren't really given the opportunity to have other beliefs o

ther than those beliefs of the church. Yet he knew that there was more out there. John Locke and Issac Newton were a great influence on Voltaire, they taught him their theories and learned studies. From their teachings Voltaire was able to evolve his own theory. He believed that people should believe only their ideas received from the senses.

I think that Voltaire's ideas were brilliant. His thoughts on Christians were perhaps the most interesting to me. He says that Christians consider themselves tolerant people, but then uses the word tolerance in the same sentence as hate, violence, tortures, and murders. This deems to be very effective, at least to me. I think here he shows us that people aren't always what they say they are or at least what they think they are. I think that a Christian reading this

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