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PLEASE HELP ASAP! Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"Furthermore, it is not they that should be punished, it is those sedentary barbarians who from the depths of their offices order, while they are digesting their last meal, the massacre of a million men, and who subsequently give solemn thanks to God." (Micromegas; ch. 7)

In the above excerpt about the leaders of people at war, Voltaire critiques _____ . There are two answers, and D is not one of them.

the rulers
violence
religion
the quality of the food

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gabygibson25
I believe it would be the rulers and the violence.
amniotecardamom
  • answer

the rulers

  • Explanation:

Voltaire was a thinker and philosopher of the French Enlightenment of the seventeenth century. Of temperament and revolutionary ideas, Voltaire was a fervent critic of absolutism, of the nobility and especially of the Church. The passage of this question recounts his revolt with the barbarous events of Absolutist France, when the popular who dared to contextualize the system were repressed by the powerful royal elite. So what Voltaire challenged was the rules in force at that time, which benefited the elite and massacred the poor.

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