Scott Foster
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first heard Aug 2026
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Be therefore more virtuous than ever.
It is necessary to lie like a devil, not timidly and for a time, but boldly and always.
He was also, as the school he left behind, has been ever since, a hypocrite.
Infidel to the heart's core he could, whenever it suited his purpose, both practice and even feign a zeal for religion.
On the expectation of a pension from the king, he wrote to Monsieur Argental, a disciple of his, who reproached him with his hypocrisy and contradictions in conduct.
Quote If I had a hundred thousand men I know well what I would do, but as I have not got them, I will go to communion at Easter, and you may call me a hypocrite as long as you like.
And Voltaire, on getting his pension, went to communion the year following.
It is needless to say that he was in life as well as in his writings immoral as it was possible for a man to be.
He lived without shame and even ostentatiously in open adultery.
He laughed at every moral restraint.
He preached liberty Nash and practiced it.
He was the guest and the inmate of the court of Frederick of Prussia, where crime reached proportions impossible to speak of, and lastly, coward, liar, hypocrite, and pandered to the basest passions of humanity, he was finally, like Satan, a murderer, if he had the power to be so.
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Writing to de Milleville he says, The Christian religion is an infamous religion, an abominable hydra which must be destroyed by a hundred invisible hands.
It is necessary that the philosophers should course through the streets to destroy it, as missionaries course over earth and sea to propagate it.
They ought dare all things, risk all things, even to be burned in order to destroy it.
Let us crush the wretch.
Crush the wretch.
His doctrine thus expressed found fatal effect in the French Revolution, and it will obtain effect whenever his disciples are strong enough in men and men.
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