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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 ...
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg turned into a Temple of Reason, depicted in 1794.. 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.
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.
He was a leader of the radical Hébertistes of the revolution, an ardent critic of Christianity who was one of the leaders of the dechristianization of France. His radical positions resulted in his alienation from Maximilien Robespierre , and he was arrested and executed.
Religious elements that long stood as symbols of stability for the French people, were replaced by views on reason and scientific thought. [34] [35] The radical revolutionaries and their supporters desired a cultural revolution that would rid the French state of all Christian influence. [36]
The first writings on the French revolution were near contemporaneous with events and mainly divided along ideological lines. These included Edmund Burke's conservative critique Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and Thomas Paine's response Rights of Man (1791).
The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) [note 1] was a form of 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.
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. pp. 363–369. Schama, Simon (1989). Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989). Slavin, Morris (1994). The Hebertistes to the Guillotine: Anatomy of a "Conspiracy" in Revolutionary France. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1838-9