I prefer freedom to fanaticism, conscience over conformity and free workers over serfs.
The old medieval French order embodied all the latter. It took a vast upheaval to sweep it away.
In the end, people had a voice, they could worship God as they wanted and they were not bound to the land in thrall to their masters.
Did the French Revolution have its sins? Of course but sometimes humanity can only advance by throwing off the shackles of the past.
When one considers whom the French Revolution emancipated: intellectuals, businesspeople, workers, peasants, Protestants and Jews, I find that alone is much to admire about it.
the french revolution didn’t “emancipate” anyone. it enslaved them to a different master. it also left them in even more hopeless and grinding poverty, and it significantly extended the timeline before they had any hope of eventual deliverance.
you’re talking a lot about God this Sunday; but you don’t seem to understand that it was also not only NOT about religious freedom, it quickly mutated into enforced atheism. government itself, the state, became a diety to the lunatics driving the french revolution.
I wish there was a less harsh way of saying this, but, in this particular case, at least, you have no idea what you’re talking about before you start writing pretty sentences. so you write pretty sentences full of tragically wrong information.