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Jean Meslier bol francúzsky katolícky kňaz a ateistický filozof.

Jean Meslier bol katolícky kňaz, ktorý pôsobil 40 rokov od vysvätenia až do svojej smrti vo farnosti Étrépigny v regióne Champagne. Jeho pôsobenie v tejto odľahlej farnosti bolo nenápadné, bez sťažností na jeho prácu a bez viditeľných problémov. Po Meslierovej smrti sa v jeho pozostalosti našli 3 kópie práce označenej autorom ako testament pre jeho farníkov, napísanej v ateistickom duchu v ktorom Meslier popiera existenciu duše a označuje Boha za chiméru. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. jún 1664 – 17. jún 1729
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“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused me! A thousand times I was on the point of breaking out publicly and opening your eyes, but a fear stronger than myself held me back, and forced me to keep silence until my death.”

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Quoted in Thinker: Jean Meslier by Colin Brewer, in rationalist.org (3 July 2007) http://rationalist.org.uk/articles/1425/thinker-jean-meslier
Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier

“It is an act of cruelty, of barbarism, to kill, to strike unconscious, and to cut the throat of animals, who do no harm to anyone, the way we do; because they are sensitive to injury and pain just as we are, regardless of what is said vainly, falsely, and ridiculously by our new Cartesians, who regard them as purely machines without soul and without feelings … This is a ridiculous opinion, a pernicious principle, and a detestable doctrine, because it clearly tends to stifle in the hearts of men all feelings of kindness, of gentleness, and of humanity that they might have toward these poor animals. … Blessed are the nations that treat them kindly and favorably, who are compassionate toward their miseries and their pains; but cursed are the nations that treat them cruelly, who tyrannize over them, who enjoy shedding their blood, and who are avid to eat their flesh.”

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In Œuvres complètes (Paris: Anthropos, 1970–1972), t. I, 210-18; quoted in Matthieu Ricard, A Plea for the Animals, trans. Sherab Chödzin Kohn (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2016), p. 19 https://books.google.it/books?id=bTLuDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA19
Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier