Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

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


That surely got "short shrift" when I was taking World History in high school.
I was fairly shocked when I later read about the revolutionaries locking
priests and nuns into barges and then sinking the barges.

I think I've heard Michael Medved comment that the American Revolution was to
establish a system where EVERYONE (from top executive on down) was subject to
laws/rules imposed by Providence/G-d/Supreme Being.
And in contrast, the French Revolution was about erasing G-d from the public
commons.
6 posted on 11/25/2004 7:22:58 PM PST by VOA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]


To: VOA

They viewed the Church as an extension of the monarchy, this was basically true of the top bishops, but they essentially eliminated religion from the French culture.


7 posted on 11/25/2004 7:26:03 PM PST by wagglebee (Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: VOA

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


28 posted on 11/26/2004 5:58:28 AM PST by RushLake (Permission from the UN...we don't need no stinking permission slip from the UN.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson