The joke has it that when Voltaire was on his death bed, the priest
asked him: "Do you renounce the Devil now?" to which Voltaire replied:
"Now is not the time to make new enemies."
Warm regards,
Iskandar
Quoting M Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Yes, there are a number of instances in which I think this is
> correct.
> For example, Abdul-Baha wrote in Secret of Divine Civilization
> that
> Voltaire and other philosophers of the Enlightenment were atheists,
> when >
> Voltaire's own words dispute this, but the belief that European
> philosophers were atheists based on their promotion of secularism was
> a
> common misunderstanding in the Arab world.
>
<<<snipped for brevity>>>
> Marleen
>
>
>
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