History: The Iniquitous Anti-Christian French Revolution.

[Nishant Xavier]

1. US President John Adams said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly unfit for the Governance of any other". He said this after seeing the disastrous effects of the iniquitous Anti-Christian French Revolution which was roughly contemporaneous. Of course in America, where Christians were far and away the Dominant Majority, there was Religious Freedom for all including Atheists. In France, once so great and gloriously Christian after it had been Evangelized by St. Remigius, the Apostle to the Franks - like Ireland was Evangelized by St. Patrick, like England was Evangelized by Saint Augustine of Canterbury, all of these were Saintly Catholic Priests/Bishops - there was none for Christians. Why was that?

1. Here is Wiki:

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"The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution is a conventional description of the results of a number of separate policies conducted by various governments of France between the start of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Concordat of 1801, forming the basis of the later and less radical laïcité policies. The aim of the campaign between 1790 and 1794 ranged from the appropriation by the government of the great landed estates and the large amounts of money held by the Gallican Church (the Roman Catholic Church in France) to the termination of Christian religious practice and of the religion itself.[1][2][3] There has been much scholarly debate over whether the movement was popularly motivated or motivated by a small group of revolutionary radicals.[1]

The French Revolution initially began with attacks on Church corruption and the wealth of the higher clergy, an action with which even many Christians could identify, since the Gallican Church held a dominant role in pre-revolutionary France. During a two-year period known as the Reign of Terror, the episodes of anti-clericalism became some the most violent of any in modern European history. The new revolutionary authorities suppressed the Church, abolished the Catholic monarchy, nationalized Church property, exiled 30,000 priests, and killed hundreds more.[4] In October 1793, the Christian calendar was replaced with one reckoned from the date of the Revolution, and Festivals of Liberty, Reason, and the Supreme Being were scheduled. New forms of moral religion emerged, including the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being and the atheistic Cult of Reason,[5] with the revolutionary government briefly mandating observance of the former in April 1794.[6][7][8][9][10]"

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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristia...Revolution It's not even clear a majority of the French People were Anti-Christians. But somehow these Anti-Christian violent Radicals gained power and then did their evil with the guillotines etc.

2. Next, it should be noted the First Christian region in the New World that practiced Religious Freedom or Religious Tolerance was a Catholic Christian one: Lord Baltimores Maryland. 

Here's the source:

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"8. Catholic Maryland: The First Tolerant American Colony

A. Patrick O'Hare

"Catholics . . . were the first in America to proclaim and to practice civil and religious liberty . . . The colony established by Lord Baltimore in Maryland granted civil and religious liberty to all who professed different beliefs . . . 

B. Martin Marty (P)

"Baltimore . . . welcomed, among other English people, even the Catholic-hating Puritans (8) . . . In January of 1691 . . . the new regime brought hard times for Catholics as the Protestants closed their church, forbade them to teach in public . . . but . . . the little outpost of practical Catholic tolerance had left its mark of promise on the land." (9) ..


D. Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (P)

• "In the 17th century the most notable instances of practical toleration were the colonies of Maryland, founded by Lord Baltimore in 1632 for persecuted Catholics, which offered asylum also to Protestants, and of Rhode Island, founded by Roger Williams." (78:1383)"From: http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apol...protin.htm

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I post this just to set the historical record straight. Read the facts for yourself from such unimpeachable sources as the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and then decide whatever you think. It's good that today people of different convictions can live together peacefully side by side. That shows humanity as a whole has in fact collectively matured in time, which is good. However, the historical record clearly shows Christians, not Atheists, including such Catholic Christians as Lord Baltimore in Maryland, were Pioneers in promoting Religious Liberty at at time Atheists weren't.