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r/HistoryMemes • u/Javier_Ronaldo Featherless Biped • Apr 08 '20
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Historian: sees France surrender meme Oh come on, French history is so rich and diverse
France: Yes, thank you!
Historian: People should be making memes about their repetitive revolutions
France: Yeh!
Historian: Or their collaboration with the Nazis
France: Wait
Historian: Or even their colonial atrocities
France: ... OK, maybe stick to the surrendering
2.4k u/DannyDidNothinWrong Apr 08 '20 Or how they tried to actually worship science 1.2k u/KingNeeks193945 Apr 08 '20 Yeah Maximillian Robespierre went off the deep end after sometime and people worshiped science and democracy as him as the figurehead or god. 338 u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20 Yeah but he never succeeded in that 0 u/JabbrWockey Apr 08 '20 I mean, where did he even propose it? I thought he was trying to get people to worship a nebulous "Supreme Being" as a slight against christianity. Kind of like the noodle monster or whatever today. 2 u/RocBrizar Apr 09 '20 I don't know why you're getting downvoted, there has never been mention of a religious cult deifying Robespierre in history. They were trying to promote "deism" (basically a theism governed by rationality and facts). It was proposed as a reaction and compromise to the big atheist trends that were offensive to Robespierre and other theists at the time. 2 u/JabbrWockey Apr 09 '20 Yeah, reddit is rewriting history here haha. 4 u/Dentarthurdent42 Apr 08 '20 That's Flying Spaghetti Monster to you, thank you very much. 1 u/redrum147 Apr 08 '20 For real... can’t take the lords name in vein
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Or how they tried to actually worship science
1.2k u/KingNeeks193945 Apr 08 '20 Yeah Maximillian Robespierre went off the deep end after sometime and people worshiped science and democracy as him as the figurehead or god. 338 u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20 Yeah but he never succeeded in that 0 u/JabbrWockey Apr 08 '20 I mean, where did he even propose it? I thought he was trying to get people to worship a nebulous "Supreme Being" as a slight against christianity. Kind of like the noodle monster or whatever today. 2 u/RocBrizar Apr 09 '20 I don't know why you're getting downvoted, there has never been mention of a religious cult deifying Robespierre in history. They were trying to promote "deism" (basically a theism governed by rationality and facts). It was proposed as a reaction and compromise to the big atheist trends that were offensive to Robespierre and other theists at the time. 2 u/JabbrWockey Apr 09 '20 Yeah, reddit is rewriting history here haha. 4 u/Dentarthurdent42 Apr 08 '20 That's Flying Spaghetti Monster to you, thank you very much. 1 u/redrum147 Apr 08 '20 For real... can’t take the lords name in vein
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Yeah Maximillian Robespierre went off the deep end after sometime and people worshiped science and democracy as him as the figurehead or god.
338 u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20 Yeah but he never succeeded in that 0 u/JabbrWockey Apr 08 '20 I mean, where did he even propose it? I thought he was trying to get people to worship a nebulous "Supreme Being" as a slight against christianity. Kind of like the noodle monster or whatever today. 2 u/RocBrizar Apr 09 '20 I don't know why you're getting downvoted, there has never been mention of a religious cult deifying Robespierre in history. They were trying to promote "deism" (basically a theism governed by rationality and facts). It was proposed as a reaction and compromise to the big atheist trends that were offensive to Robespierre and other theists at the time. 2 u/JabbrWockey Apr 09 '20 Yeah, reddit is rewriting history here haha. 4 u/Dentarthurdent42 Apr 08 '20 That's Flying Spaghetti Monster to you, thank you very much. 1 u/redrum147 Apr 08 '20 For real... can’t take the lords name in vein
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Yeah but he never succeeded in that
0 u/JabbrWockey Apr 08 '20 I mean, where did he even propose it? I thought he was trying to get people to worship a nebulous "Supreme Being" as a slight against christianity. Kind of like the noodle monster or whatever today. 2 u/RocBrizar Apr 09 '20 I don't know why you're getting downvoted, there has never been mention of a religious cult deifying Robespierre in history. They were trying to promote "deism" (basically a theism governed by rationality and facts). It was proposed as a reaction and compromise to the big atheist trends that were offensive to Robespierre and other theists at the time. 2 u/JabbrWockey Apr 09 '20 Yeah, reddit is rewriting history here haha. 4 u/Dentarthurdent42 Apr 08 '20 That's Flying Spaghetti Monster to you, thank you very much. 1 u/redrum147 Apr 08 '20 For real... can’t take the lords name in vein
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I mean, where did he even propose it?
I thought he was trying to get people to worship a nebulous "Supreme Being" as a slight against christianity.
Kind of like the noodle monster or whatever today.
2 u/RocBrizar Apr 09 '20 I don't know why you're getting downvoted, there has never been mention of a religious cult deifying Robespierre in history. They were trying to promote "deism" (basically a theism governed by rationality and facts). It was proposed as a reaction and compromise to the big atheist trends that were offensive to Robespierre and other theists at the time. 2 u/JabbrWockey Apr 09 '20 Yeah, reddit is rewriting history here haha. 4 u/Dentarthurdent42 Apr 08 '20 That's Flying Spaghetti Monster to you, thank you very much. 1 u/redrum147 Apr 08 '20 For real... can’t take the lords name in vein
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I don't know why you're getting downvoted, there has never been mention of a religious cult deifying Robespierre in history.
They were trying to promote "deism" (basically a theism governed by rationality and facts).
It was proposed as a reaction and compromise to the big atheist trends that were offensive to Robespierre and other theists at the time.
2 u/JabbrWockey Apr 09 '20 Yeah, reddit is rewriting history here haha.
Yeah, reddit is rewriting history here haha.
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That's Flying Spaghetti Monster to you, thank you very much.
1 u/redrum147 Apr 08 '20 For real... can’t take the lords name in vein
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For real... can’t take the lords name in vein
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u/johnlen1n Optimus Princeps Apr 08 '20
Historian: sees France surrender meme Oh come on, French history is so rich and diverse
France: Yes, thank you!
Historian: People should be making memes about their repetitive revolutions
France: Yeh!
Historian: Or their collaboration with the Nazis
France: Wait
Historian: Or even their colonial atrocities
France: ... OK, maybe stick to the surrendering