{"id":30336,"date":"2016-05-27T08:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T07:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=30336"},"modified":"2024-12-18T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T10:11:04","slug":"boulanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/boulanger\/","title":{"rendered":"Boulanger, Nicolas-Antoine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Boullanger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30337\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Boullanger-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"Boullanger\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Boullanger-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Boullanger.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>Nicolas-Antoine<\/strong><strong> Boulanger (1722-1759) <\/strong>was a French philosopher who concerned himself greatly with antiquity. He was convinced that prehistory of<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Boulanger-12-2.tif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-62486 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Boulanger-12-2.tif\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a> the globe was a record of a succession of floods, which subsequently led to the appearance of charismatic leaders such as Moses. His ideas followed from a study of the Bible and Plato.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;&gt;<\/span><\/strong>In <em>Christianity Unveiled<\/em> <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">2103<\/a>]<\/sup> Boulanger expressed the view that<em>, &#8220;Christianity&#8217;s doctrines are frequently incoherent and illogical and are founded on myths and superstitions. He contended that the idea of redemption through faith alone is hazardous because it encourages complacency and dissuades moral responsibility.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He had also suggested the existence of a sophisticated, antediluvian civilization.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&lt;&lt;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although Boulanger was thought not to have referred specifically to Atlantis, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/vidal-naquet-pierre\/\">Vidal-Naquet<\/a> informs us<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/t-v\/\">0580<\/a>.91]<\/sup>\u00a0that a little-known manuscript by Boulanger, now in the Muse\u00e9 de Paris, does contain Atlantis references and was\u00a0heavily plagiarised by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/buffon-georges-louis-leclerc-comte-de\/\">Buffon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger (1722-1759) was a French philosopher who concerned himself greatly with antiquity. He was convinced that prehistory of the globe was a record of a succession of floods, which subsequently led to the appearance of charismatic leaders such as Moses. His ideas followed from a study of the Bible and Plato. &nbsp; &gt;&gt;In Christianity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,1643,4698,4699],"class_list":["post-30336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bible","tag-georges-louis-buffon","tag-nicolass-boulanger","tag-vidal-naquet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62556,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30336\/revisions\/62556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}