During the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre attempted to replace Christianity with a religion based upon ‘reason’. What was this?
Answer: The ‘Cult of the Supreme Being’, which became the new state religion of the French Republic. Its fundamental belief was in the immortality of the human soul. It reached its climax with ‘the Festival of the Supreme Being’, held on the Champs-de-Mars on 8 June 1794.
Source: Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe by T.C.W. Blanning
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luis Filipe are assassinated by Republican sympathizers in Lisbon.
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Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
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“In Russia a man is a called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.”
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman
Roman statesman, soldier and writer of virtue, simplicity and wisdom. He condemned the luxury of his time and was nicknamed “the censor”. He became Consul in 195BCE, took part in the defeat of Hannibal at Zama, held command in Sardinia and Spain, and in 191 BCE assisted the Greeks in overthrowing Antiochus III at Thermopolyae.
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