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Re: What did Voltaire mean by "if God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him"?
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Originally Posted by perro sarnoso
Because God is the only being whose existence is necessary.
Everyone and everything else is contingent.
God is the only being that cannot not be. Voltaire realized this and came to the inevitably logical conclusion.
I'm sorry but that's not quite what he meant. Search for Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism and start with the paragraph that starts with the sentence "abandonment". I provided the link for you.
Re: What did Voltaire mean by "if God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him"?
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