Seriously, the more I learn about Fritz' pretty hussars (Schöning excepted), the more I realise he and Heinrich had even more in common than I had thought. :)
Also: Deist, not Atheist. Fritz and Voltaire believed there was a God who started everything, just that the world and its people then were left to their own devices, basically. (BTW, I seem to recall some of the US Founding Fathers were Deists, too, notably Jefferson, which makes all the super Christianity of the US thereafter allied to a cult of the Founders super ironic.)
Yeah, I super remember you and mildred telling me about Voltaire being Deist and therefore believing in God but not in an afterlife -- which actually really resonated with me at the time for reasons too complex for me to go into right before my bedtime, so I'm not likely to forget that even if I wasn't (still, slowly) reading Orieux -- and I am absolutely sure you guys must have mentioned Fritz being Deist too at the time, but somehow my brain retained that Voltaire was Deist and not Fritz?? IDK, I really like Voltaire, I guess :P
BTW, I seem to recall some of the US Founding Fathers were Deists, too, notably Jefferson
Yeah, the funny thing is, like mildred I learned Jefferson was a Deist in school but they never really went into Deism very much -- I knew Deists didn't believe in organized religion but I would have assumed they believed in an afterlife until, well, last year :P
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Re: Schöning, first impressions
Also: Deist, not Atheist. Fritz and Voltaire believed there was a God who started everything, just that the world and its people then were left to their own devices, basically. (BTW, I seem to recall some of the US Founding Fathers were Deists, too, notably Jefferson, which makes all the super Christianity of the US thereafter allied to a cult of the Founders super ironic.)
Re: Schöning, first impressions
BTW, I seem to recall some of the US Founding Fathers were Deists, too, notably Jefferson
Yeah, the funny thing is, like mildred I learned Jefferson was a Deist in school but they never really went into Deism very much -- I knew Deists didn't believe in organized religion but I would have assumed they believed in an afterlife until, well, last year :P