Rewriting the French Revolution

NewsMax ^ | 11/25/04 | Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D.

[Tailgunner Joe]

They also created a new calendar starting not with Jesus' birth, but with the Founding of the "Republic." The ten-day weeks abolished the sabbath. The metric system was also adopted and all this was done to purge all Christian influence from society.

[Whispering Smith]

"the French Revolution was a war on Christianity"
Concur in part. I think it was more a war on the Church as an institution. Over the years (1,200 at least) the Church had quietly acquired a substantial portion of France's real estate. It was "tax exempt" even back then and this put quite a crimp into the central government's tax base. The aristocracy was of course excused from any taxes because somewhere in the deep dark past Charlemagne and his predecessors or successors had given their ancestors estates which were tax free because they fought the Saracens, Moores, Saxons, Infidels, Mohammedans, and God only knows what else.

[Slyfox]

If you look closely, the French Revolution was a war on Christianity as much as anything.

Anti-God for sure. So hateful of the things of God were they that the revolutionists went into convents and pulled dead nuns out of their coffins and displayed them on the street.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[Luke21]

The French resistance was communist dominated. I tried to read a book about it once and couldn't make heads or tails of the thing. Finally I figured out that it was the same tripe as other commie loving books. All words that didn't mean anything.

[Caipirabob]

No worries, I'm certian in a few decades, the Islamofascists will rewrite the French Socialists out of history altogether.

Only the stench will remain as a testament that they ever existed. How utterly appropriate...

[Atlantic Friend]

I'll pass the message to the 200,000 French soldiers who died fighting Axis foprces in WW2 and who probably didn't know they "lacked the moral clarity to make a stand". And to the 1.4 million who died fighting Imperial Germany 25 years before.

[RushLake]

What is this "G-d" that you refer to?

[The Raven]

The ideals of the French Revolution - according to Hayak - were separate from those of our revolution until FDR. Imposing an intelectual view of the way things ought to be on the masses - rather than the almost trial and error approach we have

[VOA]

"The French Revolutionaries stole the property of the church and crowned a prostitute
on the altar of Notre Dame and worshipped her as the goddess of "reason." "

Amazingly, my time at a fairly conservative (and well-regarded) high school
in conservative Oklahoma and graduation from a conservative church-affiliated
college didn't expose me to this obscenity.

Thankfully, I did get more of an exposure listening to an interview of the author of
"Serious Times" on the "Stands To Reason" radio show about the insanity of the French Revolution.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0830832114/qid=1101493914/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-2419384-7684661

http://www.str.org/cgi-bin/shop.pl/task=detail/item=BK235

[VOA]

What is this "G-d" that you refer to?

Well, for me personally, it's the deity (or trinity) of Christian faith (well,
at least for most flavors of Christianity).

I simply use the term "G-d" in public forums as a consesstion to some people's
sensibilities about not the full explicit name.
(Myself, I'm not offended by a modest use of the full three letters...)