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History: The Iniquitous Anti-Christian French Revolution.
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RE: History: The Iniquitous Anti-Christian French Revolution.
(July 27, 2023 at 8:03 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: 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.

That is a lie. Here is from Napoleon's biography by Andrew Roberts:

Quote:Reforms that Napoleon imposed on the newly conquered territories included the abolition of internal tariffs, which helped to stimulate economic development, the ending of noble assemblies and other centres of feudal privilege, financial restructurings aimed at bringing down state debt, ending the restrictive guild system, imposing religious toleration, closing the ghettos and allowing Jews to live anywhere, and sometimes nationalizing Church property. These modernizing measures, which were repeated in most of the territories he conquered over the coming decade, were applauded by middle-class progressives in many lands beyond France, including by people who hated Napoleon.

Where he abolished the Inquisition, obscure feudal practices, anti-Semitic regulations and restraints on trade and industry such as the guilds, Napoleon also brought genuine enlightenment to peoples who, without his armies’ victories, would have remained often without rights or equality before the law.

Napoleon wrote from Milan in May 1796 to the eminent Italian astronomer Barnaba Oriani. ‘Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy is free. Inquisition, intolerance, despots have vanished. I invite scholars to meet and propose what must be done to give science and the arts a new flowering.’ Academics were impressed by the abolition of censorship.

So we see that it was Napoleon who introduced religious toleration, closed ghettos, abolished Inquisition, and introduced free thinking.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: History: The Iniquitous Anti-Christian French Revolution. - by Fake Messiah - July 27, 2023 at 10:29 pm

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