Discuss Voltaire's writing of "The Candide"

Title: Discuss Voltaire's writing of "The Candide"
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Discuss Voltaire's writing of "The Candide"

Hope Floats without Corruption The thesis of this paper is that organized religion is corrupt and through El Dorado only hope can be achieved. This is story Voltaire uses examples form the Catholic Church, other religious clergy to get the point across that any type of religion is corrupt. In addition the only means of hope is El Dorado. The Catholic Church during this era was supposed to give people hope by prayer and belief …showed first 75 words of 875 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 875 total…As is seems, Candide shows the corruption of religious institutions and officials through examples of the Catholic Church and other religions as well. He points out that a great place to live without corruption and abuse of religion is in the city of El Dorado. This city can be used as a model of all of Europe to abide by and citizens to hope for. Through these examples of corruption, organized religion is itself, corrupt.

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