Scott Foster
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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Witty, sarcastic, gay, vivacious, he soon made his way amongst the voluptuaries who then filled Paris.
His conduct and habit of ridiculing religion and royalty brought him, however, into disfavor with the government, and at the age of twenty seven we find him in the Bastille.
Liberated from this prison in seventeen twenty seven, but only on condition of exile, he crossed over to England where he finally adopted those infidel and anti Christian principles which made him for the half century through which he afterwards lived, what Cretinau Jolie very justly calls the most perfect incarnation of Satan that the world ever saw.
The Society of Freemasons was just then perfected in London, and Voltaire, at the instance of his infidel associus, joined one of its lodges, and he left England where he had been during the years seventeen twenty six to twenty seven and twenty eight, an adept in both infidelity and freemasonry.
He returned to the continent, with bitterness rankling his breast against monarchical government which had imprisoned and exiled him, against the Bastille where he was immured, and above all against the Catholic Church and her divine founder.
Christ and his church condemned his excesses, and to the overthrow of both he devoted himself with an ardour and a malignity more characteristic certainly of a demon than of a man.
A master of French prose hardly ever equaled and never perhaps excelled, and a graceful and correct versifier, his writings against morality and religion grew into immense favor with the corrupt reading public of his day.
He was a perfect adept in the use of ridicule, and he employed it with remorseless and blasphemous force against everything pure and sacred.
He had as little respect for the honor or welfare of his country as he had for the sanctity of religion.
His ruffian pen attacked the fair fame of the maid of Orleans, with as little scruple as it cast shame upon the consecrated servants of Christ.
For Christ he had but one feeling, eternal, contemptuous, hatred.
Hate.
His watchword, the concluding lines of all his letters to his infidel confederates, was for fifty years Acreson nous l'inflamm, let us crush the wretch, meaning Christ and his cause.
This he boasted was his Delenda Est Carthago, and he believed he could succeed.
I am tired, said he, of hearing it said that twelve men suffice to establish Christianity, and I desire to show that it requires but one man to pull it down.
A lieutenant of police once said to him that, notwithstanding all he wrote, he should never be able to destroy Christianity.
That is exactly what we shall see, he replied.
Voltaire was never weary of using his horrible watchword.
Upon the news of the suppression of the Jesuits reaching him, he exclaimed, See, one head of the Hydra has fallen.
I lift my eyes to heaven and cry crush the wretch.
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