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It is interesting to note that the philosophic ideas of the French eighteenth-century Enlightenment writers got their basic thought from Spinoza's critiques of the Hebrew Bible, despite their personal dislike of the Jews themselves. Voltaire was decidedly anti-Semitic.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 5 : Comments On Specific Religions > # 145