VOLTAIRE, Some of His Greatest Quotes . . . was he "Racist"?"When I see Christians cursing Jews," he wrote in his English Notebook, "methinks I see children beating their fathers." === "Africans are a separate species, inferior to the Europeans", === and that "ancient Jews were an ignorant and barbarous people." === Le christianisme est la plus ridicule, la religion la plus absurde et sanglante qui ait jamais infecté le monde.[37](Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that ever infected the world.) [SOURCE: Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Volume 7, Page 184]. === Voltaire was also known to have been an advocate for coffee, as he was purported to have drunk the beverage at least 30 times per day. It has been suggested that high amounts of caffeine acted as a mental stimulant to his creativity. [SOURCE: Washingtonmonthly.com ]. === In his last illness he sent for Dr. Tronchin. When the Doctor came, he found Voltaire in the greatest agony, exclaiming with the utmost horror -- "I am abandoned by God and man." He then said, "Doctor, I will give you half of what I am worth, if you will give me six months' life." The doctor answered, "Sir, you cannot live six weeks." Voltaire replied, "Then I shall go to hell, and you will go with me!" and soon after expired. [SOURCE: Abbe Barruel, who was so well informed about Voltaire that he calls him "the dying Atheist" ]. ==== Like other key thinkers during the European Enlightenment, Voltaire considered himself a deist, expressing the idea: > "What is faith? > > Is it to believe that which is evident? No. > > > It is 'perfectly evident' to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. > > > > This is no matter of faith, but of reason."
  
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