1. Reject the Reformation,
Reap the Revolution
“AN ANGEL
ANOUNCES THE
END OF TIME”

2. BEFORE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
Years before the French revolution begun there were already
protestants ( 1534 Martin Luther Lunched the Protestant Reformation).
Before the revolution, many protestants were already persecuted or
killed ( decapitated usually) for going against the will of the Church.
Going against the church also means going against the government
since the church and the state are but of one.
Despite all the persecutions and killings the gospel of God
didn’t stop from spreading. As the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION FLOURISHED
many new technologies were introduced, among these is the printing
machine which allowed the publishing of more Bibles. French Catholics
quickly adopted the Bible centered doctrines. For a while the two
witnesses ( old and new testament ( preached joyously ).

3. THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Age of Enlightenment is a term used to describe the trends in
thought during the 16th to the18th century ( started prior to the French
Revolution 1789-1799). Enlightenment thinkers placed a great premium on the
discovery of truth through the observation of nature, rather than through the
study of authoritative sources, the Bible. People came to assume that through
a judicious use of reason, an unending progress would be possible—progress
in knowledge, in technical achievement, andeven in moral values. Through
proper education, humanity itself could be altered, its nature changed for the
better.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1762)
This person believed in civil liberty and popular will over divine right
of kings or popes. His thoughts shaped the ideologies of the FRENCH
REVOLUTION.

4. What caused the French Revolution?
1) The French government faced a fiscal crisis in the 1780s due
to many wars, and King Louis XVI was blamed for mishandling these
affairs.
2) the Revolution was caused by the rising bourgeois (middle
class ), with support from the sans-culottes ( common people ), who
fought to destroy the aristocracy ( hereditary ruling class or nobility )
The economy was not healthy; poor harvests, rising food prices.
High taxes were imposed even to the poor and the church tolerated this
inequality.
3)The Church was exempt from paying taxes to the government,
while it levied a tithe—a 10% tax on income, often collected in the form
of crops—on the general population, only a fraction of which it then
redistributed to the poor.
Protestants living in France, such as the Huguenots, wanted an anti-
Catholic regime for discriminating, persecuting and causing their exile.

5. THE NOTORIOUS FRENCH REVOLUTION ( 1789-1799 )
> Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
philosophes -claimed to speak on behalf of the public,
arguing that people had certain natural rights and that governments
existed to guarantee these rights.
Thus, the nation had now also taken on the responsibility of
the Church, which included paying the clergy and caring for the poor,
the sick and the orphaned.
When the French people threw their old Monarchy, they also
threw their old religion which leads us to the DE-CHRISTIANIZATION of
FRANCE.

6. THE NOTORIOUS FRENCH REVOLUTION
( 1789-1799 )
DE-CHRISTIANIZATION CARRIED OUT
Because of the many changes in the government causing the weakened power of
the Church, many resentments occurred resulting in a revolution. Widespread refusal led to
legislation against the clergy, "forcing them into exile, deporting them forcibly, or executing
them as traitors.“
A new Republican Calendar was established in 1793 which commenced not the
birth of Jesus.
Human reasoning appeared increasingly respectable while Christian doctrine was
despised and almost vomited. They instead chose to worship the Goddess of reason called “
Our Lady of Notre Dame”
Locals often resisted de-Christianization by attacking revolutionary agents and
hiding members of the clergy who were being hunted. These events led to a widespread
disillusionment with the Revolution and to counter-rebellions across France.

7. THE NOTORIOUS FRENCH REVOLUTION
( 1789-1799 )
REIGN OF TERROR
- by Maximilien Robespierre (French lawyer and
political leader, who became one of the most influential
figures of the French Revolution and the principal exponent
of the Reign of Terror. )
During the reign of terror many people were persecuted or
killed by mob beating or by decapitation through a guillotine.
First to decapitate members of the nobility and Roman
Catholic clergy, and later to behead the revolutionaries
themselves.