What began as a push for liberty ended with tyranny, terror and incredible bloodshed. In many ways, while certainly singing the praises of enlightenment philosophers, the French Revolution was anything but rational or reasonable. France became, figuratively, "Sodom and Egypt." Not only was the abuse of the medieval church rejected Christianity itself was tossed aside.Ī number of events during the French Revolution proved to be so vile that many students of the historical school of prophetic interpretation have identified the happenings in France with the temporary death of two witnesses (the Old and New Testaments) predicted in the eleventh chapter of Revelation. The French Revolution literally enthroned her on the heels of her as the nation rejected the temporal authority of the Catholic church across the nation, churches were converted into “Temples of Reason.” Legend has it that during the infamous Festival of Reason in 1793, a prostitute was dressed up as the goddess of reason in order to sing indecent songs from the altar at Notre Dame. If late 17th and early 18th century Europe had a god other than the Judeo-Christian God, it was the goddess of reason. I spent the morning thinking about something.
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