Liberalism is based on replacing God with government. And it is truly based on worship.
Nope. Liberalism is (among other things) about separation of the Ecclesiastical law from the Civil law (which is the tradition of Anglo-Saxon Common Law), so that we are not like our terrorist enemies.
People don't count.....only the collective does.
Like the Church; Christ's Body?
Were you an educated person, you would be aware of the distinction between the American Revolution, instituted by folks who believed in the bible, and the French Revolution, based on replacing Christianity with a religion based on reason and the common will.
This contrast is incorrect. Several of the French Revolutionaries (before the counter-revolutionary manias, like The Terror) were members of clergy, for instance the Abbè Sieyès. And though many (by no means ALL) American patriots were believers in the Christian faith, they had the reason to understand that rather than a system of religionism, "better proof of reverence for that holy name wd be not to profane it by making it a topic of legisl. discussion, & particularly by making his religion the means of abridging the natural and equal rights of all men, in defiance of his own declaration that his Kingdom was not of this world"
The putative father of Leftism, Liberalism is Hegel.
*facepalm*
Elements of the Philosophy of Right - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"This contrast is incorrect. Several of the French Revolutionaries (before the counter-revolutionary manias, like The Terror) were members of clergy, for instance the Abbè Sieyès. And though many (by no means ALL) American patriots were believers in the Christian faith, they had the reason to understand that rather than a system of religionism, "better proof of reverence for that holy name wd be not to profane it by making it a topic of legisl. discussion, & particularly by making his religion the means of abridging the natural and equal rights of all men, in defiance of his own declaration that his Kingdom was not of this world"
"This contrast is incorrect."
It seems I must teach you a lesson about doubting me.
And now to fulfill my role as your educator:
1. The rabble, led by the Jacobins proceeded to smash every trace of the past- religion, law, the social order, even the weights and measures system, and even the calendar.
a. On November 2, 1789,
the Assembly declared everything owned by the Catholic Church to be property of the state. Shortly after, the Assembly severed the French Catholic ChurchÂ’s with the pope, dismissed 50 bishops,
dissolved all clerical vows, reorganized the church so that priests were to be elected by popular vote, and required all the clergy to swear an oath of loyalty to the state.
2. With the Jacobins in control, the “de-Christianization” campaign kicked into high gear. Inspired by Rousseau’s idea of the religion civile, the revolution sought to
completely destroy Christianity and replace it with a religion of the state. To honor “reason” and fulfill the promise of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen that “no one may be questioned about his opinions, including his religious views,”
Catholic priests were forced to stand before the revolutionary clubs and take oaths to France’s new humanocentric religion, the Cult of Reason (which is French for ‘People for the American Way’).
a.
Revolutionaries smashed church art and statues.
3. 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.”
a. "The Cult of Reason (French: Culte de la Raison) was an
atheistic belief system established in France and intended as a
replacement for Christianity during the French Revolution."
Cult of Reason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
b. 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.”
c. 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.
]Lamourette's Kiss | Infoplease.com
4.
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!
5. The excesses of the French Revolution, and thousands upon thousands of deaths and mutilations take no back seat to the Russian revolution, or MaoÂ’s mayhem.
a. This was not a revolution that was likely to end, as
the American Revolution did, with the motto “Annuit Coepis” (He [God] has favored our undertakings) on its national seal.
The above treated in far more detail in chapters 6 and 7 of "Demonic," by Coulter.
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