PoliticalChic
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Replacing the very center of what made Western Civilization, civilization per se, and, in another connection, everything, God, has been the enduring aim of what is referred to as 'the Left.'
We can single them out for study as
the French Revolution,
the extension of that revolution, ie, the Russian and Maoist versions,
and the political version, the Democrat Party.
4. 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: âLyon waged war against liberty; Lyon is no more.â
We can single them out for study as
the French Revolution,
the extension of that revolution, ie, the Russian and Maoist versions,
and the political version, the Democrat Party.
- By June 1793, the radical Jacobins had total control of the Convention, and began instituting left-wing government policies, such as price controls. Robespierre dominated the tyrannical âCommittee of Public Safetyâ and began the âReign of Terror,â purging all âenemies of the revolution.â They demanded death for traitors, spies, moderates, anyone who disagreed with Robespierre. His ally, Saint-Just, called for âunlimited war,â saying the Republic âowes the good citizens its protection. To the bad ones it owes only death.â
- The guillotine was set up next to the statue of Liberty in the âPlace de la Revolution.â Fifty or so a day were dragged up the stairs.
- With the Jacobins in control, the âde-Christianizationâ campaign kicked into high gear. Inspired by Rousseauâs idea of the religion civile, the revolution sought to completely destroy Christianity and replace it with a religion of the state. To honor âreasonâ and fulfill the promise of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen that âno one may be questioned about his opinions, including his religious views,â Catholic priests were forced to stand before the revolutionary clubs and take oaths to Franceâs new humanocentric religion, the Cult of Reason (which is French for âPeople for the American Wayâ).
- Revolutionaries smashed church art and statues.
4. 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: âLyon waged war against liberty; Lyon is no more.â
- "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 FouchĂ©, head of the de-Christianization, arranged for the âbankers, scholars, aristocrats, priests, nuns, wealthy merchants, their wives, mistresses and childrenâ to be dragged from their homes and killed by firing squads. He then wrote that Christianity in the provinces âhad been struck down once and for all.â
- Lamourette had, originally thought that he could fuse revolutionary principles with Catholicism, much like todayâs pro-life Democrats, based on a âcanât we all just get alongâ philosophy. Such gave rise to the idiom âthe kiss of Lamourette.â [On July 7th, 1792, the AbbĂ© 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 âhow these Christians loved one another;âbut 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]