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    The Cult of Reason (French: Culte de la Raison) was France's first established state-sponsored atheistic religion, intended as a replacement for Roman...
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    Cult of Reason by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution. It went unsupported after the fall of Robespierre and, along with the Cult of Reason...
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    Cult of Reason, which was based on the ideals of reason, virtue, and liberty. This "religion" was supposed to be universal and to spread the ideas of...
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    A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing...
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  • A cult is a group which is typically led by a charismatic and self-appointed leader, who tightly controls its members, requiring unwavering devotion to...
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  • egoism, jacobinism, Juche, Maoism, Religion of Humanity, the cults of personality, the Cult of Reason and Cult of the Supreme Being. The term secular religion...
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  • a Cult Leader is a television documentary series released on Netflix which examines how cult leaders recruit followers and control all aspects of their...
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  • of reason The Age of Unreason, a series of science fiction novels by Gregory Keyes Cult of Reason, a brief time during the French Revolution "Rage of...
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  • the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being and the atheistic Cult of Reason, with the revolutionary government briefly mandating observance of the former in...
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    under the name Death Cult, which was an evolution of the name of lead vocalist Ian Astbury's previous band Southern Death Cult. They gained a dedicated...
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    Catholicism. The introduction of the prominent cults during the revolutionary period – the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being – responded...
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    A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated...
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    outspoken atheists, anti-Christians, and republicans. They invented the Cult of Reason as an alternative Enlightened worldview to replace all religions. On...
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    Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being, which was considered a deistic cult which referred back to the theism of Christianity. The Cult of Reason was finally...
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  • the country, and it briefly replaced Christianity with the deistic Cult of Reason. The first to use the already-extant word "secularism" in a modern sense...
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    then in vogue. Cult of Reason is celebrated at Notre-Dame during the French Revolution (1793) Arrival of Napoleon at the east end of Notre-Dame for his...
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  • self-subsistent Substance, with both matter and thought being attributes of such. The Cult of Reason was France's first established state-sponsored atheistic religion...
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  • 'Pataphysics Silinism Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Tarvuism United Church of Bacon Zone Theory Abrahamites Cosmism Cult of Reason Cult of the Supreme Being Deism...
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    included Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being, the Cult of Reason and, during the later post-Terror period, the Decadary Cult and Theophilanthropy....
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    celebration of Christmas, unlike the Catholic Church or the Anglican Church, from the latter of which they separated. With the atheistic Cult of Reason in power...
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  • precedent in the French Revolution with the Cult of Reason. The idea proposed that in place of the abolition of religion, there should be a meta-religious...
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    and Festivals of Liberty, Reason and the Supreme Being were scheduled. New forms of moral religion emerged, including the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being...
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  • through yoga studios. The group has been described as a cult by some former members. The leader of Buddhafield is a man previously known as Michel, Andreas...
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    Fête de la Raison was held in honor of the Cult of Reason. Churches across France were renamed "Temples of Reason" and the Notre Dame was "de-baptized"...
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  • the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985) and Marshall...
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  • Deism (category Philosophy of religion)
    rival atheistic Cult of Reason. There were over five hundred French Revolutionaries who were deists. These deists do not fit the stereotype of deists because...
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    the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being and the atheistic Cult of Reason, with the revolutionary government briefly mandating observance of the former in...
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    the republican principles; and to establish the Cult of the Supreme Being in place of the Cult of Reason promoted by de-Christianizers like the Hébertists...
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  • Republic. There have also been cases of states creating their own religions, such as imperial cults or the Cult of Reason. Understanding religion’s impact...
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  • and part of the Reign of Terror. The Cult of Reason was celebrated in a carnival atmosphere of parades, ransacking of churches, ceremonious iconoclasm, in...
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