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Robespierre's cult wasn't based on "reason" but rather was just a normal religion based on a central God and the belief in an immortal soul. It wasn't really al
by jhbadger 4y ago
Robespierre's cult wasn't based on "reason" but rather was just a normal religion based on a central God and the belief in an immortal soul. It wasn't really all that different from many forms of Protestantism -- he simply wanted to control the religion himself rather than having the Pope do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being