The baron of Holbach. This guy dropped a thousand page book on natural philosophy where he argued for the full on non-existence of god. This was in 1770, it was possibly the first time this had ever happened. Needless to say the book instantly gained extreme notoriety and garnered dozens of responses and refutations from all over Europe, though it also had fans such as the English poet Shelley who was utterly convinced by the contents of the book and immediately began work on an English translation.It even drew a response from Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, who commented:>When one speaks in public he should consider the delicacy of superstitious ears; he should not shock anybody; he should wait till the time is sufficiently enlightened to let him think out loud.
Mysticism has been a disaster for the human race.
He managed to avoid legal trouble, because he published anonymously through his contacts in Amsterdam. Though judging by the reaction>The Parlement of Paris and the Sorbonne condemned Système de la nature in 1770, calling it “a work forged in Hell by the Devil’s hand.” Copies were publicly burned.he would have certainly faced execution if he had been found out. His true identity was only discovered in the 1800s, long after his death.
>>18032494this dude might be the dumbest amongst the atheists, and you worship this. kekall children until 7 yo are still fully connected with God. after that, the poisonous thoughts of their fathers, teachers, friends start to take effect, making them blind to their spiritual side
>>18032509Damn, the Dutch are so based allowing the publication of such literature at the time. Isn't there an anecdote about Louis XIV reading their newspapers because they were so informative and unbiased?
>every single culture except modern leftist ideological twats has SOME hankering for God and/or religion/spirituality>durrr man is born without the religious impulseWhat a midwit.
>>18032494>>18032509That's not even the most radical work attributed to him. See:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_Unveiled>In October 1768, the police arrested the sales assistant Josserand, the peddler Lecuyer and his wife for selling books "contrary to good morals and religion," including Le christianisme dévoilé. The case confirms that the book was received with interest even in the lower classes.[32] All three were sentenced to three days of pillory, Josserand to branding and nine years of galley, Lecuyer to branding and five years of galley, and his wife to five years in a reformatory.[33] Despite Lecuyer's numerous previous convictions, this punishment was unusually severe and caused dismay in philosophical circles.[34]>Le christianisme dévoilé is among the books that the clergy condemned at their general assemblies (Assemblées du clergé) in the years 1770 and 1775.[35] In August 1770, several books and pamphlets were condemned to be burned by court order, including copies of Holbach's work.[36]Also this guy is interesting:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie
>>18032509Contrary to popular belief, Gibbon never directly said Christianity caused the fall of the RE as England at that time still had anti-blasphemy laws.
>>18032596Newspaper censorship was about the only thing the french censorship board was serious about.
>>18032494Bro thought Christianity was impairing the discovery/creation of real morals.
>>18032497mysticism is quite literally benign and harmless.
>>18033010Yes, Christianity is a slave morality. Man rapes your wife, turn the other cheek and let him rape you. Forgive an infinite amount of times (70x7 indicates infinity in Jew logic). Give money so the addict can buy more crack.
>>18032494How does Lucretius compare to this guy in terms of argumentation and eloquence?
>>18034750He was supposedly a bit of a midwit once you take away the sheer shock value of his writings. He gets a lot of facts wrong in his historical analysis and even cites an erroneous experiment involving spontaneous generation of eels as an argument that life could arise by itself. Voltaire made fun of a bunch of his arguments and even included him as a character in his novel, "the philanthropist/moral atheist". Of course he was in fact almost certainly correct with life arising spontaneously, just by all the wrong means.>LucretiusWhy would you even bother making such a random comparison? They are completely different types of writings and millenia apart.
>>18032578>This dude who published 1000s of philosophy pages is fucking stupid actually
>>18033010>Go to heaven if you pay travelling monks their state allowance>Get killed if you mix and match fabric>Kill children if they cuss out teachers and the local magistrate That's because it is
>>18032494Kazimierz Łyszczyński did this in the 1680s.
>>18035613Interesting, but his treatise was completely destroyed after his execution it seems.
>>18035613>Bishop Załuski gave the following account of the execution:>"After recantation the culprit was conducted to the scaffold, where the executioner tore with a burning iron the tongue and the mouth, with which he had been cruel against God; after which his hands, the instruments of the abominable production, were burnt at a slow fire, the sacrilegious paper was thrown into the flames; finally himself, that monster of his century, this deicide was thrown into the expiatory flames; expiatory if such a crime may be atoned for."[4]Wtf
