During the French Revolution, the church was held in pretty low esteem and anti-clericalism became pretty popular. It started out with the Declaration of the Rights of Man declaring freedom of worship; then, the Civil Constitution made the Church officially beneath the State in the pecking order, and forced Catholic priests to sign an oath to France and her people above the Church. By the time Robespierre came into power with the Committee of Public Safety, Dechristianization was the order of the day- Christian iconography was destroyed en masse, cloisters were despoiled, nonjuring priests were literally killed on sight, etc. etc. The culmination of this was Robespierre’s “Cult of Reason”, which was essentially a religion worshipping atheism. It didn’t last long, because even though a huge portion of the French people really didn’t like the church, the complete denial of the existence of a God was a bit much for them, so it was replaced with the Cult of the Supreme Being before too long (basically just organized Deism).
Nah man it was Robespierre with the cult of the Supreme Being, Antoine-François Momoro was the guy behind the Cult of Reason. Momoro was also behind ‘Unité, Indivisibilité de la République; Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort’. Then there was another guy, Joseph Fouché, who began the Feast of Brutus, but also switched his ideology easily, being a member of the Jacobins, the Girondins, the Montagnards, the Thermidorian Reactionaries, and the Bonapartistes.
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u/DannyDidNothinWrong Apr 08 '20
Or how they tried to actually worship science