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    The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) was a form of theocratic deism established as the intended state religion of France and...
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    during the French Revolution. After holding sway for barely a year, in 1794 it was officially replaced by the rival deistic Cult of the Supreme Being, promoted...
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  • signs of worship the institution of revolutionary and civic cults, including the Cult of Reason and subsequently the Cult of the Supreme Being (spring...
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    celebrated across the country; this was part of the Cult of the Supreme Being, a deist national religion. On 10 June (22 Prairial), the National Convention...
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    Shandi (2013). Religions of Revolution: The Merging of Religious and Political in the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme being in France 1793–1794...
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    deist beliefs. Climaxing at the Champ de Mars, he delivered speeches emphasizing his concept of a Supreme Being devoid of religious figures like Christ...
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    recognize the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul", and to organize celebrations of the new cult. May 8: The chemist Antoine Lavoisier...
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    the Year III. These included Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being, the Cult of Reason and, during the later post-Terror period, the Decadary Cult and...
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    addressing the relationship between religion, morality, and the republican principles; and to establish the Cult of the Supreme Being in place of the Cult of Reason...
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  • jacobinism, Juche, Maoism, Religion of Humanity, the cults of personality, the Cult of Reason and Cult of the Supreme Being. The term secular religion is often...
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    literally 'Supreme Truth'), is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo...
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  • observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe...
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    dissolution of the Catholic Church and revolutionary cults like the Cult of the Supreme Being. Olwen Hufton argues some wanted to protect the Church from...
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    characterised by the downfall and abolition of the French monarchy, the establishment of the National Convention and the Reign of Terror, the Thermidorian...
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    and occasionally followers of pantheism, may sometimes refer to God as "Deus" or "the Deus" to make clear that the entity being discussed is not a theistic...
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    Pierre-Joseph Cambon (category Members of the Chamber of Representatives (France))
    of the general's great popularity. Cambon incurred the hatred of the theist Maximilien Robespierre (see Cult of the Supreme Being) by proposing the suppression...
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  • Abrahamites Cosmism Cult of Reason Cult of the Supreme Being Deism Christian Deism Ethical movement Freethought North Texas Church of Freethought God-Building Humanism...
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  • Festivals of Liberty, Reason and the Supreme Being were scheduled. New forms of moral religion emerged, including the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being and...
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    of Christian and theistic cultural influences by force, was opposed to Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being, which was considered a deistic cult which...
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    Tuileries Garden (category Venues of the 1900 Summer Olympics)
    Ceremony of the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Garden (Tuileries), 1794 After the death of Louis XIV, the five-year-old Louis XV became owner of the...
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  • A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the result of an effort which is made to create an idealized and heroic image of a glorious leader...
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    Polytheism (category Philosophy of religion)
    Kök-Tengri as the supreme being evolved as a dynastical legitimation. It is at least agreed that Tengrism formed from the diverse folk religions of the local...
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  • The radical Jacobins seized power in 1793, ushering in the Reign of Terror. The Jacobins were deists and introduced the Cult of the Supreme Being as...
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    including the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being and the atheistic Cult of Reason. The drownings at Nantes targeted many Catholic priests and nuns. The first...
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    then to the Cult of the Supreme Being in 1794. During this time, many of the treasures of the cathedral were either destroyed or plundered. The twenty-eight...
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  • amendment to the Constitution of the United States, forming an early and influential secular government. 1794: the Cult of the Supreme Being in France is...
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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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    Gottgläubig (category Conceptions of God)
    themselves Gottgläubige. Of the general SS membership, 16% had left their respective churches by the end of 1937. Cult of the Supreme Being Esotericism in Germany...
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  • includes the elimination of existing religions in favor of one run by the state (i.e., the cults of Reason and the Supreme Being). Jacobinism was as an...
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    Jacobins rejected both the church and atheism. They set up new religious cults, the Cult of Reason and later Cult of the Supreme Being, to replace Catholicism...
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