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From the most remote period theology alone regulated the march of philosophy. What aid has it lent it?
Monday Meslier: 201 – Theology Has Always Turned Philosophy From Its True Course
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Jean Meslier
From the most remote period theology alone regulated the march of philosophy. What aid has it lent it?
… IT FORMS BUT LICENTIOUS AND PERVERSE DESPOTS, AS WELL AS ABJECT AND UNHAPPY SUBJECTS.
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You tell us, O theologians! that “what is folly in the eyes of men, is wisdom before God, who is pleased to
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confound the wisdom of the wise.” But do you not pretend that human wisdom is a gift from Heaven?
It is pretended, that in forming the universe, God had no object but to render
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man happy. But, in a world created expressly for him and governed by an all-mighty God, is man after all very happy? Are his enjoyments durable? Are not his pleasures mingled with sufferings?
Every man who has the boldness to announce truths to the world, is sure to receive the hatred of the priests; the latter loudly call upon the powers that be, for assistance; they need the assistance of kings to sustain their arguments and their Gods. These clamors show the weakness of their cause.
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The sovereigns of this world in associating the Deity in the government of their realms, in pretending to be His
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lieutenants and His representatives upon earth, in admitting that they hold their power from Him, must necessarily accept His ministers as rivals or as masters.