I think that between the book covers of the history of religions, rises the smell of burning human flesh and the screams of the innocent. In his religious beliefs, man is foolish and fools should be forgiven by fools. It is insurmountable that I have never realized anything about religions. No one else ever figured out anything about religions, and that's why people have fought each other and killed each other. Voltaire has, in 1764, taken a position on the Egyptians in his book "Philosophical Dictionary". Apis v. 1764. Was Apis Taurus worshiped in Memphis as a god, a symbol, or a bull? There is reason to believe that the fanatics saw in him a god, wise only a symbol, while a stupid people worshiped the bull. Did Cambysia act wisely when he killed this bull by hand when he conquered Egypt? Why not? They were forced to see that their God could be put on the skewer without the nature reappearing such sacredness. The Egyptians have been greatly praised. I myself do not know the more despicable people: in their nature and in their administration, there has always been a fundamental fault that has always made them miserable slaves. I admit that, in times of almost sleepy times, they might have been world conquerors; The French lost the battle on the map of mammals. (v.1250 Seventh Crusade, when King Louis IX of France was imprisoned in Egypt) There may be only two tolerable features in the Egyptians: first, these worshipers of bulls never tried to force monkey worshipers to change their religion, and secondly, they have always been able to bury egg chicks in the oven. The pyramids are praised, but they are the monuments of the slavery. The whole nation was supposed to be put down, otherwise these rocks would never have been erected. Where were they needed? To keep a mummy of a ruler or governor or superintendent in a small chamber, whose soul was supposed to revive after a thousand years. But if they hoped for the resurrection of their body, why the brain was removed before it was scaled down? Was the intention that the Egyptians would come to life without brains? Voltaire