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.
There was Robespierre and the Jacobins who enforced their notion of revolutionary purity on others but they were in the end consumed by their own violence.
You’re right it took a long time for democracy and individual freedom to take root but once the French Revolution was purged of its radical excesses it became a banner for liberal democracy in Europe and elsewhere.
It gave people hope they didn’t have before and even if the ideals they dreamt about couldn’t happen for them, it could happen for their children and grandchildren.
We’ll agree to disagree about the French Revolution but the lesson for me is as long people rise and fight for freedom, it will never die in the hearts of men.