Scott Foster
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first heard Aug 2026
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His real name was Francis Mary Arrouette, but for some reason which has never been clearly explained, he chose to call himself Voltaire.
He was the son of good parents and by position and education should have been an excellent Catholic.
He was trained by the very Jesuits whom he afterwards so hated and persecuted.
He was destined for the profession of the law and made good progress in literary studies.
But the corruption of the age in which he lived soon seized upon him, overmastered him, and bore him along in a current, which in his case did not end in vice only, but in vice which sought its own justification in infidelity.
From the beginning the fool said in his heart, There is no God, and in the days of Voltaire the number of these fools was indeed infinite.
Never before was vice so rampant in countries calling themselves Christian.
If the gospel was preached at all in that age it was certainly to the poor, for the rich, as a rule, to which there were, thank God, many exceptions, seemed so sunken vice as to not believe in a particle of it.
The courts of Europe were in general corrupt to the core, and the court of the most Christian king was perhaps the most abandoned in a wide sense of them all.
The court of Catherine of Russia was a scene of unblushing lewdness.
The court of Frederick of Prussia was so corrupt that it cannot be described without doing violence to decency and even to humanity.
The Regent Orleans and Louis XV had carried license to such an extent as to render the court of Versailles a veritable pandemonium.
The vices of royalty infected the nobles and all others who were so unfortunate as to be permitted to frequent courts.
Vice, in fact, was the fashion, and numbers of all classes, not excepting the poorest wallowed in it.
As a consequence, the libertines of the period hated the church, which alone, amidst the universal depravity, raised her voice for purity.
They took up warmly, therefore, the movements which, within or without her pale, were likely to do her duty.
damage.
With a sure instinct they sided in France with Gallicanism and Jansenism.
and they welcomed the new infidelity which came over from England and Germany with unconcealed gladness.
Voltaire appeared in French society at this most opportune moment for the advancement of their views.
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