RE: Do you think that without religion the crusades would have never happened?
July 14, 2009 at 6:50 pm
(July 13, 2009 at 8:19 pm)padraic Wrote: [quote='Anto Kennedy' pid='22735' dateline='1247530116']
How about another question to revive the thread.
Do you think the French Terror would have happened without the Rationalist Enlightenment?
Probably.The French Terror was about power not ideology, as have been most revolutions,beginning with the American War Of Independence.
Revolutions come from the middle,not the bottom,fomented by disenchanted middle class intellectuals who then organise the masses. Revolutions tend to be bloody.
If I may intercede gents, what was the Rationalist Enlightenment?
The revolution was about overthrowing the ancien regime and replacing it with " liberte, egalite, fraternite".
It was led by the middle class with the initial support of the lower class.
And yes, revolutions do tend to be bloody...otherwise, what's the point?
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
