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He did not believe in religion of any kind. Voltaire believed only in Godof whom he was always mindful because of God's hard, fundamental cruelty. And incessant.

Voltairewriter, dramatist, essayist and prominent European philosopheris compelling in the way he conveys his ideas, humorous in his satire. His writing is bright in tone, both his stories and his polemics. But from the 1760s, Voltaire lost his brightness; his pen produced pamphlets of anger.