Language Card : english

Creation Date : 10 September 2022

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Name : Voltaire

Serie : Black & White

Type : Lighting

Attack 1 : Autocracy
Voltaire, by challenging the divine right kings often put up to strengthen their rule, challenged the kings. Voltaire claimed that "Kings steal money from the Faithful in the name of God," which did not go with the social system of the time, which usually was an absolute monarchy.

Attack 2 : Divine Right
Voltaire attacked the idea of divine right, saying that the governments are "perverting" the ideas of religion to benefit themselves. He claimed that the purpose of religion to go back to its simplest form, and this will also "teach men much, and would make men just."

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