Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article analyses Voltaire’s discussions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam as religions of “priestcraft” and “imposture.” Scholarship has often treated Voltaire’s attacks on these three religions separately. This article shows that there were many continuities and similarities, but also some dissimilarities, in Voltaire’s accounts and indictments of the three Abrahamic religions. It documents at length Voltaire’s ridicule directed at these religions – at their central texts, rituals, beliefs, and founders. It sketches Voltaire’s own commitment to theistic religion against these three religions and also against atheism. It ends both by stressing and by questioning the extent to which Voltaire directed ridicule rather than respect towards these religions and their followers.
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