Cult of the Supreme Being event

“Robespierre, who's a deist influenced by Rousseau's ideas of civil religion and the general will, believed that belief in a higher power was essential for public morality and republican stability. Here's the beliefs. The French people recog…”

“and aimed to counter both Catholic fanaticism, is what they called it, and outright atheism. Robespierre, who's a deist influenced by Rousseau's ideas of civil religion and the general will, believed that belief in a higher power was essent…”

“The best service to the supreme being is the practice of human duties, which is detesting bad faith and tyranny, punishing traitors and caring for the unfortunate, defending the oppressed and doing good to others. It emphasized reason, natu…”

“And that's the problem with these revolutions. The Fabians, they looked at this and said, well, this is not the way we're going to do it. This violent revolution doesn't work. So we're just instead going to do it the very slow way. And then…”