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Re:The Cult of Reason by jlpom on Saturday September 15, 2018 @09:59AM (#17994307)
I studied the Revolution as part of the national curriculum of 1st year of HS, and this "religion" was as crazy as the description of it sounds, and part of the ambient madness of the following years. It seems to me to be more the expression of collective madness than Lumières's ideals.
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Re:The Cult of Reason by opaque on Saturday September 15, 2018 @10:09AM (#17994339)
It wasn't covered in any detail by my school curriculum, so I've been catching up. I had no idea they "reformed" so many aspects of civci life, including the calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
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Re:The Cult of Reason by touart on Saturday September 15, 2018 @10:37AM (#17994425)
"They" being the revolutionaries, not the members of this cult.
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