Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #69: Voltaire (1694-1779) Voltaire (1694-1779) was a writer and philosopher who championed Enlightenment ideas and values. He was especially supportive of religious freedom and freedom of speech. He regularly condemned religious fanaticism, intolerance and superstition. He also was a successful promoter of deism -- a semi-atheistic, non-Judeo-Christian religion which holds that a God exists and created the universe, but does not intervene in its operation. Voltaire was a key figure of the Enlightenment in that he influenced and emboldened those fighting for reason, rights and reform in both Europe and America. Go to #70: Mary Wollstonecraft Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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