It seemed as if Voltaire despised religious intolerance disdained it. His works seem to suggest that religious groups should be more accepting to other religious groups or the lack there of. For example in his piece “the ignorant philosopher” he argues that the many deaths and executions of many victims were unjust and unfair. His overall stance on religious intolerance is interesting because these ideas during that time almost humanitarian but why did so many oppose or reject these viewpoints if they brought better to the world? In his story candid he takes a complete 180 and comes at the topic with a completely different perspective. He makes it seem like that all religious people are bad and overzealous. But in the ignorant philosopher
