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  2. Cult of Reason - Wikipedia

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    The Cult of Reason (French: Culte de la Raison) [note 1] was France's first established state-sponsored atheistic religion, intended as a replacement for Roman Catholicism during the French Revolution. After holding sway for barely a year, in 1794 it was officially replaced by the rival deistic Cult of the Supreme Being, promoted by Robespierre.

  3. Temple of Reason - Wikipedia

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    A Republican inscription on a former church: "Temple of reason and philosophy", Saint Martin, Ivry-La-Bataille. A Temple of Reason (French: Temple de la Raison) was, during the French Revolution, a state atheist temple for a new belief system created to replace Christianity: the Cult of Reason, which was based on the ideals of reason, virtue, and liberty.

  4. Cult of the Supreme Being - Wikipedia

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    The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) [note 1] was a form of theocratic deism established by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution as the intended state religion of France and a replacement for its rival, the Cult of Reason, and of Roman Catholicism.

  5. Dechristianization of France during the French Revolution

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    Looting of a church during the Revolution, by Swebach-Desfontaines (c. 1793). The aim of a number of separate policies conducted by various governments of France during the French Revolution ranged from the appropriation by the government of the great landed estates and the large amounts of money held by the Catholic Church to the termination of Christian religious practice and of the religion ...

  6. French Republican calendar - Wikipedia

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    French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...

  7. Civil Constitution of the Clergy - Wikipedia

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    Persecution of Roman Catholics by the State would intensify into de-Christianization and propagation of the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being in 1793–1794. During this time countless non-juring priests were interned in chains on prison ships in French harbors where most died within a few months from the unhealthy conditions.

  8. Category:Religion and the French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to both religion and the French Revolution (1789-1799), until the Coup of 18 Brumaire. Subcategories. ... Cult of Reason; Cult of the Supreme Being; D.

  9. French First Republic - Wikipedia

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    Cult of Reason (October 1793 – March 1794) Cult of the Supreme Being ... République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution.