Candide:"Ya feel me?" (Final)

"that a man's soul is tested in the freedom to choose evil or good and is perfected by suffering" (Voltaire 8)
I started and finished the book by the introduction. After reading it, the rest of the book was such a disappointment since the actual beauty of Voltaire's writing lies in how he can express his intentions (in most cases sarcastic) on ink and paper. There is a passage from that starts at the begging of page eight and ends at the very top of page nine, too long to quote word by word, but definitely something that shouldn't be overlooked. I enjoyed reading his views on Catholicism so much because he doesn't use 'The God Argument' but instead he aims at how shamelessly religion preaches about all kinds of suffering when the preacher might not even know what suffering is. If the book was written by those who had to face death, hunger, pain and cold it would be something almost entirely different.
"Event he Christian doctrine of purification by suffering can be made to sound callous by a preacher who does not know what suffering means" (Voltaire 9)
I wasn't really raised to believe anything in particular, but given the choice to stick to a doctrine i would chose none, I've been told I am an agnostic, but i don't even know what the word means so i cant really relate to it.
I'd rather keep my opinions on the book to the minimum since they varied a lot thoughout the journey, but I wholeheartedly advise anybody who reads Candide to take a minute and read the introduction, because it was there that i found the most enjoyable page-and-a-bit of the book.