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===Legacy===

===Legacy===

Voltaire's influence surpassed him in death: One of his sayings, "To Philosophy!", was nailed onto one of the atheistic Temple of Reasons during the French Revolution.<ref>Kennedy, Emmet (1989). A Cultural History of the French Revolution. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-04426-7. p. 343</ref> In addition, Charles de Gaulle, when pardoning left-wing activist and philosopher [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] during the [[May 1968 riots]], cited Voltaire as his reason, saying "One does not arrest Voltaire." (which is false, as Voltaire had in fact been arrested and spent nearly a year at the Bastille,<ref>[http://www.thedivineconspiracy.org/Z5260P.pdf Excerpt from Paul Johnson's ''Intellectuals''] on thedivineconspiracy.org</ref> and in fact his pen-name "Voltaire" had originated from one of his prison sentences.<ref>http://catholicism.org/louis-ix-king-crusader-and-saint.html</ref>) In addition, the website voltairenet.org was named after Voltaire. In addition, Voltaire, or, more specifically, his hostility to all revealed religion, acted as one of four sources for the American Library Association's radicalization.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19980119060706/http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1996/feb96/focus.html<br />

Voltaire's influence surpassed him in death: One of his sayings, "To Philosophy!", was nailed onto one of the atheistic Temple of Reasons during the French Revolution.<ref>Kennedy, Emmet (1989). A Cultural History of the French Revolution. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-04426-7. p. 343</ref> Over a century later, Charles de Gaulle, when pardoning left-wing activist and philosopher [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] during the [[May 1968 riots]], cited Voltaire as his reason, saying "One does not arrest Voltaire." (which is false, as Voltaire had in fact been arrested and spent nearly a year at the Bastille,<ref>[http://www.thedivineconspiracy.org/Z5260P.pdf Excerpt from Paul Johnson's ''Intellectuals''] on thedivineconspiracy.org</ref> and in fact his pen-name "Voltaire" had originated from one of his prison sentences.<ref>http://catholicism.org/louis-ix-king-crusader-and-saint.html</ref>)

 

In addition, Voltaire, or, more specifically, his hostility to all revealed religion, acted as one of four sources for the American Library Association's radicalization.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19980119060706/http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1996/feb96/focus.html<br />

"Where did the ALA's [American Library Association's] current, radically [[Subjectivism|subjectivist]]/individualist philosophy come from? The ALA, which constantly quotes from the First Amendment and whose brochures picture the Founding Fathers, would have you believe that it springs from James Madison's Enlightenment ideas about freedom. Not so. The ALA's philosophy comes from four sources: first, the later Enlightenment philosopher, Voltaire, who was hostile to all revealed religion."</ref>

"Where did the ALA's [American Library Association's] current, radically [[Subjectivism|subjectivist]]/individualist philosophy come from? The ALA, which constantly quotes from the First Amendment and whose brochures picture the Founding Fathers, would have you believe that it springs from James Madison's Enlightenment ideas about freedom. Not so. The ALA's philosophy comes from four sources: first, the later Enlightenment philosopher, Voltaire, who was hostile to all revealed religion."</ref>