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.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I’m not understanding the importance of the post - am I supposed to get upset because French revolutionaries were mean about Christians three centuries ago?

Not feeling it.

Boru

Addendum: Lord Baltimore wasn’t as religiously tolerant as you seem to think. The Tolerance act applies ONLY to Trinitarian Christians. In practical terms, it allowed for the religious persecution of anyone who didn’t believe in the Trinity.

Put that in your shoe and sniff it.

[Nay_Sayer]

There is no importance. His perceived mission is to make multiple topics every day so he can proselytize.

No engagement, No conversation, Just a stream of text.

[Angrboda]

It's nothing more than the Gish Gallop in written form. The man is a literal firehose of misinformation.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pishant, still helping pedophiles get access to young boys?

[Anomalocaris]

How do you know he is not a pedophile himself?   He seems supremely well adapted to talking himself into a feeling of overweening self-righteousness regarding any base whim that comes to him.

[Rev. Rye]

Also worth noting, your claim about Maryland under Lord Baltimore being the first majority Christian nation to practice religious toleration is absolutely wrong. In 1636, Roger Williams founded Rhode Island, and the year after, entered into a compact with his compatriots that made a point of keeping religious matters out of their government.

And despite Maryland being formed in 1632, the Maryland Toleration Act only came into being in 1649. And unlike the laissez-faire approach that Rhode Island (and also Connecticut around the same time) took, it only applied to Trinitarian Christians, with denial of the divinity of Christ still punishable by death. And it didn't even last for more than a few years at a time, due to many religion-based conflicts.

[Bucky Ball]

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?

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The Treaty With Tripoli. Written by the Washington Administration, passed unanimously by the senate, under the Adams administration, signed by President Adams. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_...%20pirates.

Article 11 As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

The Pilgrims came to these shores to ESCAPE religious persecution from the likes of Pissant X.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How do you know he is not a pedophile himself?   He seems supremely well adapted to talking himself into a feeling of overweening self-righteousness regarding any base whim that comes to him.

I thought that was a given. Why else would anyone support grown men buttfucking little boys?

[The Valkyrie]

Treaty of Tripoli to address the first.

Since the church was in on the excesses that led up to the French Revolution, is it not surprising the people had a problem with them?