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Who is the real author of Mon Testament--Baron d'Holbach or Jean Meslier?

Meslier. D'Holbach was 6 years old when Testament was published. --Dannyno 11:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What nonsense!

"His book Le Système de la nature became known as the Atheist's Bible."

What nonsense!

I am an atheist and I don't consider Le Système de la nature as the Bible. By the way, how do you pronounce "Le Système de la nature "?

RS

Your being an atheist and your lack of knowledge regarding d'Holbach has nothing to do with how his work was regarded in the past. d'Holbach's work did have a large and today mostly unappreciated affect and his treatise on the system of nature did at one point have quite a reputation. -dp

The criticism is misplaced. The book was indeed called "the atheist's Bible". See, for example, p.87 of "The Enlightenment: a sourcebook and reader", (2003) edited by Paul Hyland, Francesca Greensides, and Olga Gomez. Or p.112 of Maurice Braure's "The Age of Absolutism" (1963). That is was so called clearly does not mean that atheists regarded it in the same way that Christians view the Bible. It just means that it was very significant in its time. Don't take it so literally and ahistorically. In fact, there is no indication in the two sources above that any atheist called it "the atheist's Bible". Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. Just as likely, Christians thought of it that way. --Dannyno 18:05, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I always thought it was called the Materialist bible? /Benzocaine 19:52, 24 July 2007 (UTC)