{"id":38030,"date":"2024-12-06T22:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=38030"},"modified":"2024-12-06T22:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:49:56","slug":"voltaire-on-the-connection-between-absurdities-and-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/voltaire-on-the-connection-between-absurdities-and-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Voltaire on the connection between absurdities and atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5754446.Voltaire\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/authors\/1393683411i\/5754446._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg\" alt=\"Voltaire\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.\u201d<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2015&nbsp;<strong>Voltaire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (November 21, 1694 &#8211; May 30, 1776), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voltaire\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.\u201d \u2015&nbsp;Voltaire Fran\u00e7ois-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (November 21, 1694 &#8211; May 30, 1776), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/voltaire-on-the-connection-between-absurdities-and-atrocities\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38031,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38030\/revisions\/38031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}