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
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)
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.)
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