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In A.D. 1750, Voltaire, the brilliant and

witty French literary genius, was one of a

group of writers who helped prepare the

soil and sow the seeds of the French

Revolution. Voltaire boasted that he,

alone, could demolish the Bible! He

reported: “I am weary of hearing people

repeat that twelve fishermen founded

Christianity. I will show the world that

one Frenchman is sufficient to overthrow

it!” Voltaire was a prodigious writer. The

flood of infidel works that flowed from

the pen absorbed the full capacity of a

printing-press. He rashly predicted that

in one hundred years the Bible would

have ceased to exist, except for a few

copies to be found in museums!

In A.D. 1795, Thomas Paine, the

notorious English Free-thinker, fought the

Bible with sarcasm and ridicule. The Age

of Reason is one of his best-known books.