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In reply to the discussion: What if gods never existed? [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)28. Understood.
As one person once said:
Si Dieu nexistait pas, il faudrait linventer.
That person was Francois Marie Arouet, also called Voltaire.
However:
Déiste, et non athée, le philosophe trouve la religion nécessaire, pour donner des règles de bonne conduite au peuple : « Je veux que mon procureur, mon tailleur, mes valets croient en Dieu ; et je mimagine que jen serai moins volé. » Il nest pas le seul bourgeois à le penser.
https://www.histoire-en-citations.fr/citations/voltaire-si-dieu-n-existait-pas-il-faudrait
Deist, but not an atheist, the philosopher found religion to be necessary as a source of rules...etc.
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Man would conger up a different loophole to escape responsibility for being inhumane. nt
Snotcicles
May 2018
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