In Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary, his vision on ideal religion was certainly not Christianity, but the ideal of Deism. The ideal of Deism is the idea that God existed and he created the universe, but then stopped at that point, and stepped back and let things function and form on their own, creating a culture of relativism. This led Voltaire to believe in religion toleration. A majority of his findings came mostly from the enlightenment era and other philosophers of this era. A lot of the philosophers from the enlightenment era criticized the Christianity religion because they believed that after approaching the bible subjectivity, that the bible was a basically a myth. They all believe that the bible was written by mankind and not God
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He states, “The Christian Church was divided in its cradle, and was divided even in the persecutions which under the first emperors it sometimes endured” and was said that often the martyr was expired beneath a sword and then excommunicated (P.28). With tolerance being a consequence of humanity, why would people go this far to torture or kill people just because they believe in a different religion than others? With Voltaire’s ideal religion, he believed that God did indeed exist and did create the universe, but when he stepped back to let things flow and come together on their own, God wanted people to believe in what they thought was right, not belittle people because they differ in ideals of …show more content…
Voltaire defines superstition as giving power to something other than God. These include rituals, rites, and practices. “The Protestants regard the relics, the indulgences, the mortifications, the prayers for the dead, the holy water, and almost all the rites of the Roman Church, as a superstitious dementia” (P.26). This religion is giving many things other than God, power to make their people believe that their religion is the one that should be followed and worshipped. Voltaire describes how no one religion agrees to what superstition is. The sect seems to be less attacked, in which has the least rites. Each sect claims to have some reason on its side to at some point penetrate a number of people to disarm force (P.26). To see that these sects basically give fundamentals to religion, causing other religion sects to think superstition by another sect is just pity. This causes violence just because of the idea one’s beliefs is more than just evil; it is out of doubt of
He states, “The Christian Church was divided in its cradle, and was divided even in the persecutions which under the first emperors it sometimes endured” and was said that often the martyr was expired beneath a sword and then excommunicated (P.28). With tolerance being a consequence of humanity, why would people go this far to torture or kill people just because they believe in a different religion than others? With Voltaire’s ideal religion, he believed that God did indeed exist and did create the universe, but when he stepped back to let things flow and come together on their own, God wanted people to believe in what they thought was right, not belittle people because they differ in ideals of …show more content…
Voltaire defines superstition as giving power to something other than God. These include rituals, rites, and practices. “The Protestants regard the relics, the indulgences, the mortifications, the prayers for the dead, the holy water, and almost all the rites of the Roman Church, as a superstitious dementia” (P.26). This religion is giving many things other than God, power to make their people believe that their religion is the one that should be followed and worshipped. Voltaire describes how no one religion agrees to what superstition is. The sect seems to be less attacked, in which has the least rites. Each sect claims to have some reason on its side to at some point penetrate a number of people to disarm force (P.26). To see that these sects basically give fundamentals to religion, causing other religion sects to think superstition by another sect is just pity. This causes violence just because of the idea one’s beliefs is more than just evil; it is out of doubt of