Religious Tolerance François-Marie Arouet(Voltaire), Moses Mendelssohn, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing were awe-inspiring philosophers who all shared their beliefs through the Enlightenment(17th-18th century).
They had their own way of expressing their convictions ,but they all agreed on one thing which was religious tolerance. They lived in different conditions growing up which affected them by forming their beliefs of religious toleration. These mean also practiced some same activities to spread their beliefs
Through plays, poems, essays, brought new and useful philosophies. and letters to people who opposed them. Moses Mendelssohn(1729-1786) was a Jew and a german philosopher who led the enlightenment movement Haskalah that won some ground for jewish rights. He was born to a poor jewish family that was discriminated because of their beliefs like all jews at this time. This is a huge reason why he decided to fight for jewish rights,since they had many restrictions impeding them from living a fair and normal life. Unlike Voltaire, Moses was in an organized religion(judaism) which Voltaire didn’t really approve of ,because he(and most deist) thought it brought intolerance and then fanaticism.
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He too was part of the Enlightenment because of the many plays he made throughout his life. One of which, Nathan the Wise, showed how he thought of religion. He explained through the parable in his play that he thought religions were “indistinguishable”, which mean that he also agreed with Voltaire that organized religion was useless. They all worshipped to a God and should tolerate each other instead of argue to see who is better. Unlike Moses though, he wasn't born into poverty and was raised in religion because of his father being a lutheran