Jesus was the first of the Enlightenment philosophers. In John 8:4-7 speaking like some sort of first century Voltaire, Jesus questioned the laws and traditions of his day. "And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, they said to him, 'Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?' ... Jesus said unto them, 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.'" Voltaire couldn't have said it better.
-- Frank Schaeffer, Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God, p. 60
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