the woman that recorded it said, I will never sit over another athiest dying it was too horifying.
Voltair also said one day belief in Jesus will be gone and my work place making my books will remain-after his death the bible society bought his place and used it as a publishing house for the bible. Yet he insisted on rejecting the savior even on his death bed knowing he would be going to gnashing teeth and torment forever as Jesus says in the bible in Revelation19-22nd chapters, rather than repenting and letting the loving savior into his heart? Why
do you have a good answer Why?
2006-11-05 21:33:55 · 15 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
he just didn't believe,I guess. Hedoesn't believe that he's going to gnashing teeth, that is sad, I know, but... what is done is done, all we can do now is not let that ever happen to a person again.
2006-11-05 21:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
If by Voltair you mean François-Marie Arouet who used the pen name "Voltaire" - then I think you'll find he was a deist, not an atheist. He belived that one did not require faith to believe in God.
The claim that his house was used as a Bible publishing house is based on a misunderstanding:
"There is an apocryphal story that this house was purchased by the Geneva Bible Society and used for printing bibles, but this appears to be due to a misunderstanding of the 1849 annual report of the American Bible Society [see here http://www.nzarh.org.nz/journal/2004v77n1aut.pdf ]. Voltaire's chateau is now owned and administered by the French Ministry of Culture."
The claim that of what he said on his death bed probably stems from the fact that he went through church procedures of confession, absolution and last sacrament in attempt to secure a burial in one of the Parisian cemeteries. However knowing that they would deny him this, his death was kept a secret and he was buried at Romilli-on-the-Seine, some 100 miles from Paris.
You need to look up all the facts before you jump to comclusions.
2006-11-05 21:47:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Voltaire was never an Atheist. He was a Deist. I don't know where you get this lie, but even if true, it shows delusion rather than some credibility in Jesus. Why would someone still alive be talking about being damned before actually being dead and going through the supposed judgment?
2006-11-05 22:16:53 · answer #3 · answered by Alucard 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why did Christians steal his remains?
"In 1814 a group of "ultras" (a right-wing religious group) stole Voltaire's remains and dumped them in a garbage heap. No one was the wiser for some 50 years. His enormous sarcophagus (opposite Rousseau's) was checked and the remains were gone. (see Orieux, Voltaire, vol. 2 pp. 382-4.) His heart, however, had been removed from his body, and now lies in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. His brain was also removed, but after a series of passings-on over 100 years, disappeared after an auction."
2006-11-05 21:41:59 · answer #4 · answered by angk 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When an Atheist is facing death, they are facing the end of everything. They have not deluded themselves into believing that some fairy-tale existence will be their home for eternity. I'm sure the woman witnessed the last moments of someone who realized they were about to wink out of existence and the mention of Jesus was probably a curse against the false promise of an after-life. The woman in question had an agenda of her own and what she said should be taken with a ton of salt. We know that deluded believers will lie to perpetuate their silly myths and superstitions.
2006-11-06 02:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You must be a troll or nuts. Who the hell is Voltair ?
Anyway I had a dream I was going to die (and I didn't pray).
Who ever Voltair is, was not an Atheist.
Atheists do not believe in god(s) or Godess(es)
2006-11-05 21:50:19 · answer #6 · answered by lilith 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Voltaire was only an atheist for the earlier years of his life.
2006-11-05 21:38:35 · answer #7 · answered by Waylon R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is Voltaire not Voltair. These were dumb stories made up by the church to scare people.
2006-11-05 22:08:02 · answer #8 · answered by apicole 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
even although i do not prepare a faith, I do each and every now and then say a touch prayer if i'm quite apprehensive about something - in basic terms in case there is someone accessible who can help......
2016-11-28 20:09:00 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*snicker*
actually, on voltaire's deathbed, a priest asked him to renounce satan, and voltaire's reply was "now, now my friend, this is no time to be making enemies."
which sounds exactly like something voltaire would say...
2006-11-05 21:37:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋