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CoA Cult of the Supreme Being

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So I MAY possibly have gone a little overboard with my creativeness on this one, but this is a part of the French Revolution that realy fascinates me.

So here it is: The Cult of the Supreme Being. During the early stage of the French Revolution, dechristianization played a huge role in the political efforts of certain revolutionary clubs. As one of the two ruling estates, holding huge ammounts of power and wealth, the Catholic Chruch became a target for the revolutionaries and dechristianization became part of the revolutionary campaign. Churches and monestaries were pillaged and clergymen executed or imprisoned. Maximilien Robispierre did loath the Catholic Church, but he was not an atheist. He believed that the citizen's virtue he made the center point of his political philosophy, the glooming threat (and also the glooming light of a higher power) was a necessary thing. In order to join both his anti-catholisism and his deitism into one policy, he created the Cult of the Supreme Being (cult in French not having the negative conotation the English word has), a civic religion in which a higher being of unspecified form was reveared that created the world an mankind and gave men an immortal soul and held him to the virtues of citizenship. Churches were rededicated to this religion, and Jean-Paul Marat, the radical journalist and activist who had been murdered during the early stages of the reign of terror, became the religion's primal saint. Busts of Marat were put on altars where formerly crosses had been standing and he was openly and bluntly compared to Jesus Christ in speeches, especialy during his burrial (where the bathtub in which he had been stabbed in literaly got put on the altar of the chruch the burrial took place in). 

The cult never became popular and it's first great national holiday, in which Robespierre held a four hour long speech, was one of the major factors in his downfall and vanished with his death never to return.

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Very interesting. This was also known as a cult of Antichrist...
Because Maximilien was so brutal in his reign then of course that he was defeated by others such as the previous absolutist monarch.
The people should be free to worship any religion they wish and the state never interfere inside religions, even if good or not.
Moderation and neutralism is always better.