Why was the French Revolution so horrible hostile towards established

atheism

I dunno, but it's probably another instance of the people getting slaughtered not actually dindu nuffin-ing.

>>1999209
Jacobins taking things too bloody far

>>1999220
>Cult of the Supreme Being
>atheism

Take your average fedora
Give him dictatorial power
See what happens

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Because the clergy was corrupt, immoral and rolling in wealth along with nobility. All while preaching humility and poverty.

Literally fuck the church, biggest parasites and hypocrites that ever existed. And fuck every religion that bases itself on lies and hypocrisy.

>>1999209
It was organized religion that was hostile towards the revolution.

>>1999209
Because the Church was both nominally the source of the king's authority and an extremely powerful and extremely conservative organization that got special treatment from the government.

>>1999233
This. People often fail to understand that secularism is just as totalitarian and fundamentalist as any other belief system.

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>>1999209
>Enlightenment
>Literally pic related

>>1999209
>understand that the clergy were terrible
>don't want to eliminate them
OP is a pussy desu

>>1999209
It was because the Church condemned the Revolution. The Revolutionaries then asked priests to sign the Civil Constitution of the Clergy pledging loyalty to the nation. Those that didn't were seen (rightly) as traitors and persecuted, but throughout the whole Revolution a "Constitutional Church" of clergy who did declare their loyalty continued to exist and was not persecuted.

>>1999209
because representative governments and genuine religious commitments are not compatible

>>2000497
>(rightly)
just no

>>1999209
Atheism

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>>1999209
The clergy had disproportionate power because those lands were rightfully the Catholic Church. They developed the monasteries, sowed the land and made it bear life again while stupid secularists were busy fucking shit up.

As for the French Revolution, they followed an ideology called Positivism which believes that because society's culture is built by religion which is "irrational", this irrationalism permeates society through it's institutions and people. They believe if they "remake" society to be more based on "rational" beliefs then society as a whole will become more rational and science will flourish, which they believed to be the answer to all of society's problems.

>>1999209
Freemasonry

>>2000497
remember that the Church didnt let themselves subjugated to theThe Roman Empire. They didnt register to the empire unlike other religions. Them (French heretics) doing that is like an insult

>>2001347
That was only because they expected to boss others around, the revolutionaries wanted to put an end to their lust for power.

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>>2001363
>lust for power

That's just your opinion

>>2001383
But it's right.
Why else would they always hoard land like crazy and refuse to pay even a nickel as tax to the king?
They just wanted to create a state in the state and suck the other state dry,.

>>2000497
>a "Constitutional Church" of clergy who did declare their loyalty continued to exist and was not persecuted
Really? Not even during the whole Cult of Reason/Supreme Being episode?

>>1999209
There was no separation between the king and the catholic religion. Bishops crowned kings, nobility protected the clergy, and often the most important families belonged to both

Hence peasants and bourgeois viewed them as roughly the same kind of people and attacked them without much discrimination. Of course some prominent figures like the abbé Sieyès got away with it because they immediately supported the revolution

>the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen defended religious freedom
No one really cared about it before the fourth republic, and especially not crowds of angry workers/peasants

>>2003195
>Of course some prominent figures like the abbé Sieyès got away with it
Sièyes literally said he had "outgrown superstition" by the time he had become an abbot. He was probably one of the biggest fedora tippers of the time, only starting an ecclestial career because it's convenient.

>>1999232
the supreme being wasn't a god, he was an ideal

>>1999209
"muh reason mothafucka"

>>2003906
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being#Religious_tenets
The Cult of the Supreme Being was...
>A state religion
>A form of deism (ie. acknowledgement of the existence of a deity)
>Pushed the idea of an even more personal deity than that of the standard deists at the time (Voltaire, Paine etc.)
>Had moral tenants that were "not inconsistent" with Christianity

It was basically Christianity without Christ. The Supreme being was more than an ideal, like the reason of the preceding Cult of Reason was. In fact, under the institution of the Cult of the Supreme Being, many chief architects of France's dechristianization were executed.

I'll never understand why Robespierre didn't just make the jump back to Catholocism and introduced an unneccessary middle step though.