Voltaire-Good or Evil

Voltaire was admittedly a pantheist, meaning that he believed no commonly accepted religion but did believe in an all-powerful being. Many people call him a hypocrite because he wrote of religous tolerance but hated both Jews and Christians. I retort by saying one can hate a religion and still be tollerant of it.

One must be both ignorant and hypocritical to accuse someone of hypocracy when they very individuals who say this about his refer to pantheism as atheism merely because it is not widespread doctrine. While i agree with neither belief system yet it is common knowlege that any religion which believes in the existance in any all-powerful being cannot be atheism simply because of what it is. I find both pity and contempt for any individual who is blinded by zeal as a pose to guided by it.

this is the hateful and ill-founded post compiled by a pitiful individual who finds the only way to express himself is to hypocritically slander a great man.

The Religion of Voltaire: He was an atheist, anti-Semite, hated Islam
Compiled by Lewis Loflin

They argue Voltaire was not an atheist, was something called a pantheist. Pantheism is simply atheism and is promoted by many so-called "modern deists" who take a strange religious view of nature. (Or treat it as divine.) Voltaire claimed to be a Deist, he was not. The God of Deism transcends nature, God is not Nature nor is Nature divine. The claim of pandeism is equally absurd. This is merely an atheistic creation of god as an abstract principle and nothing in any real sense. Thus it's atheism. Eastern religion is also a favorite of many atheists today as it was with Voltaire. Many of those of the French Enlightenment attempted to replace Christianity with pagan Greek philosophy. Voltaire was an elitist and hypocrite.
Voltaire has written of "tolerance," but was totally intolerant of Christians and was a rabid anti-Semite. So "tolerance" applied to anything but Christians and Jews. That's pretty much where radical Humanists are at today. The Humanist French Revolution gave us the gelatine and state sanctioned murder. Paul Kurtz of the Humanist Society called Marx "the greatest humanist of the 19th Century." Humanist philosophy later gave us the gulag and gas chambers.