The revolutionaries of the first french republic sought to replace Catholicism and religion with a state sponsored secular religion called "the cult of reason" which later was changed by Maximilien Robespierre into the Cult of the Supreme Being. The former, more true to the spirit of revolution culminated into a "theistic" pagan religion.
The new government banned Catholicism, replaced Mary with "le Marienne" representing the "godess of liberty". They changed the Gregorian Calendar with a new one. They hid all Christian imagery inside Christian churches and converted them into pagan temples dedicated to the "godesses" of reason or of liberty, and had altars dedicated to philosophy.
By the hands of the reign of terror we see priest ordinations dropping to zero, the drownings of Nantes saw the death of 4000 people, mostly women, children, nuns and Catholic priests. 30k priests were forced to leave France and many churches were left empty, some sold or destroyed.
It would be dishonest of me, however, to say that this revolution was factually "pagan". It wasnt. revolutionaries were simply anti-Christian who viewed religion as a utilitarian social construct and thought it be best to replace christianity with literal paganism.
It was used to replace the old monarchical, hierarchical Christian order with a new democratic and liberal order which gave us the Declaration of the Rights of Man and "freedom", "equality" and "tolerance".
Although not explicitly as radically anti catholic, other revolutions, especially the revolutions of the XIX century, were inspired by the 1st french republic's secularism, liberalism and anti-clericalism.
We see this very pronounced in e.g: for example the 1st Portuguese republic or the 2nd Spanish republic.
The new government banned Catholicism, replaced Mary with "le Marienne" representing the "godess of liberty". They changed the Gregorian Calendar with a new one. They hid all Christian imagery inside Christian churches and converted them into pagan temples dedicated to the "godesses" of reason or of liberty, and had altars dedicated to philosophy.
By the hands of the reign of terror we see priest ordinations dropping to zero, the drownings of Nantes saw the death of 4000 people, mostly women, children, nuns and Catholic priests. 30k priests were forced to leave France and many churches were left empty, some sold or destroyed.
It would be dishonest of me, however, to say that this revolution was factually "pagan". It wasnt. revolutionaries were simply anti-Christian who viewed religion as a utilitarian social construct and thought it be best to replace christianity with literal paganism.
It was used to replace the old monarchical, hierarchical Christian order with a new democratic and liberal order which gave us the Declaration of the Rights of Man and "freedom", "equality" and "tolerance".
Although not explicitly as radically anti catholic, other revolutions, especially the revolutions of the XIX century, were inspired by the 1st french republic's secularism, liberalism and anti-clericalism.
We see this very pronounced in e.g: for example the 1st Portuguese republic or the 2nd Spanish republic.
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Drownings at Nantes
drownages superintended during the Reign of Terror at Nantes by the attorney Carrier
Forwarded from Bronze Age Revival
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but to give another example, Calvinism in Hungary was allowed to proliferate in the territories under Ottoman control, while the territories of Hungary under the Habsburg monarchy weren't due to the counter-Reformation policy of the empire. That's why the eastern part of Hungary and the Hungarians in Transylvania are largely protestant while the rest is Catholic