PoliticalChic
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Or you could be wrong. I see no evidence that the French Revolution was a religious and not a political/economic revolution. That's not to say the Catholic Church was not on the wrong side of the political and economic issues and got itself burned as a result.See how lucky you are to have turned in today.....look what you just learned:
Although contemporary, the American Revolution was the very antithesis of the French Revolution.
The latter, based on anti-religion, the American version infused with the Judeo-Christian faith.
That's why ours didn't become a slaughter house, as did the French version.
"I see no evidence that the French Revolution was a religious and not a political/economic revolution."
Talk about 'blind.'
- In Lyon, the archbishop refused to swear allegiance to the republic, and was removed, replaced by the revolutionary bishop Antoine Lamourette. But the people of Lyon responded by clinging to their guns and religion. So, the Convention ordered that Lyon, the second-largest city in France, be destroyed and a monument erected on the ashes proclaiming: “Lyon waged war against liberty; Lyon is no more.”
- "The Cult of Reason (French: Culte de la Raison)a was an atheistic belief system established in France and intended as a replacement for Christianity during the French Revolution."
- Cult of Reason - Wikipedia
- Joseph Fouché, head of the de-Christianization, arranged for the “bankers, scholars, aristocrats, priests, nuns, wealthy merchants, their wives, mistresses and children” to be dragged from their homes and killed by firing squads. He then wrote that Christianity in the provinces “had been struck down once and for all.”
- Lamourette had, originally thought that he could fuse revolutionary principles with Catholicism, much like today’s pro-life Democrats, based on a “can’t we all just get along” philosophy. Such gave rise to the idiom “the kiss of Lamourette.” [On July 7th, 1792, the Abbé Lamourette induced the different factions of the Legislative Assembly of France to lay aside their differences; so the deputies of the Royalists, Constitutionalists, Girondists, Jacobins, and Orleanists rushed into each other's arms, and the king was sent for to see “how these Christians loved one another;”but the reconciliation was hollow and unsound. The term is now used for a reconciliation of policy without abatement of rancour. Brewer's: Lamourette's Kiss]
- In lieu of religious holidays, which were banned, the revolutionaries put on “Fetes of Reason.” The first was in November 1793, in the Notre Dame Cathedral, which had been renamed “The Temple of Reason,” with “To Philosophy” carved on the façade and the altar named the “Altar of Reason.” It was an ACLU fantasy come true!
Just imagine how different you'd be if you had ever read a book.
You know what a 'book' is, don't you????