How Did Voltaire Change The Government

Voltaire changed the world no by giving speeches but by writing. He challenged the government through to split the state from the church. He wrote many plays, books, letters and pamphlets to explain what he wanted to be changed. He didn't like that because the king of France wanted everyone to be a certain religion that they had to be that religion. ¨He wrote how human rights are far above the dogma of holy books - how government's main duty is to secure and recognize the rights of the People, and should never be bound to some obsolescent 'revealed' hearsay called Holy Scripture.¨ according to John Patrick Michael Murphy. Voltaire is considered an enlightenment thinker because he changed the government and it still affects us to this day. …show more content…
One specific poem challenged politics and religion. That poem made the government furious with Voltaire and they arrested him in 1717 and was imprisoned for 11 months in bastille. When he got out of prison he continued with his literacy and was forced to move to England. He lived in England for three years then moved back to France. When Voltaire was exiled to England he was a mere poet but he ¨came back out a philosopher¨ René henry Pomeau. When he came back to France he wrote one of his most famous plays that was called Zaire. Voltaire may have written may books plays and poems but he still got his point across, which was that the state and the church needed to be