"Robespierre And The Cult Of The Supreme Being" By Albert Mathiez.

"Robespierre and the Cult of the Supreme Being" by Albert Mathiez.

Robespierre’s physiognomy has been so disfigured for the past twenty years by historians that to speak today of the Incorruptible’s religious ideas may seem to be attempting the impossible.

            Robespierre, it is proclaimed, is narrow-minded, a man of the ancien régime, a coldly ambitious man who wanted to reign over France by imposing upon it, by Terror, a false copy of Catholicism, deism established as State religion.

            I cannot consider studying, texts and proofs in hand, all of Robespierre’s politics regarding religion. It will suffice me to take an example, to examine the exact role Robespierre played in the establishment of the Religion of the Supreme Being since this seems to be the essential test used by all his detractors.

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As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

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Rebloging my own post cus why not? Lmaooo yasss

OMGGG I’m back from the grave and I drew Robespierre! Yasss! It was Thermidor or something and I wanted to post something but I’m too lazy to finish anything I started so I’m just gonna post it nowww. Here’s my first post

If anyone (maybe not…)recognises my art style — yesss, it’s me. I’m very busyyy

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