France & Revolutions

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment’s greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. Pankaj Mishra

France is a country who has been influential in gastronomy, art, architecture, science, language, philosophy and historical figures! A country who has both been for and against Rome. The French Revolution the climax to the story of a proud nation! The country started out a very Catholic nation with some of the Papacy even holding a seat there for some time. The Norwegian king Rollo married a French princess and they had William I who invaded Britain in the Norman Conquest. Christianity had already come to France. The French Reformation took place around 1512 with a man named Lafevre, a professor of ancient literature at the University of Paris. He discovered the Bible and taught others by translating the New Testament! The Gospel in the language of the people came to France and exerted its influence, a flame was ignited! Then came John Calvin who preached door to door, risking his life to share the Bible. In Paris, God had sent Lafevre and Farel to the King, to preach in front of an audience of aristocrats. The King and princes opened the palace for Protestant ministers to preach the Gospel from the Bible in the peoples language! For two years this went on with the approval of the King of France until opposition and persecution came! Every house was searched anyone who were Lutherans were tortured and burned alive! Even printing was abolished in France by Francis I, there was no freedom of speech and the King betrayed the Protestant Christians! The Gospel of Christ was destroyed by those who were supposed to be Christians! There were other Bible believing groups in France who were also persecuted; the Waldenses of the Piedmont, the Albigenses, and the Huguenots! The greatest evidence of the influence of Satan, is seen in the St. Bartholomew Massacre in which, the Papacy and the King of France, murdered Protestants at night in cold blood culminating in the deaths of 15,000 or more people! 258 years later came the French Revolution! As all know, the Papacy didn’t like Protestantism, they told the monarchs that Protestantism would bad for their kingdoms, even though the reformers never used violence! A papal nuncio was sent to the King of France stating, “Sire, be not deceived. The Protestants will upset all civil as well as religious order… The throne is in as much danger as the altar… The introduction of a new religion must necessarily introduce a new government.” D’Aubigne, ‘History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin,’ b. 2, ch. 36. During the Protestant Reformation, the Counter Reformation and the Inquisition was under the control of the Jesuit order. In 1773, the Order were suppressed, the Inquisition given to the Dominican order. Before the Revolution, the major religion of France was Roman Catholicism, though King Louis XVI allowed Protestants and Jews to live in France and practice their religion. The Catholic church owned most of the land on which it received large sums of money from it’s surfs and tithe money! When the French Revolution came, it attacked all religion by instituting an atheistic state with the ‘Goddess of Reason” or Athena. During this time the “citizens” took over and reclaimed millions of dollars of money and land from the Catholic Church. They were fed up with slavery and poverty caused by the major religion!

So where did the Enlightenment thinkers really get their ideas from? The philosophers like Voltaire, Descartes, Weishaupt, Locke, were educated in schools which had been dominated by Jesuit influence! John W. O’Malley, S.J. stated in his article, ‘How the first Jesuits became involved in Education.’

“By 1773, the year the Society of Jesus was suppressed by papal edict, the Jesuits were in charge of some 800 educational institutions around the globe. The system was almost wiped out by the stroke of a pen, but after the Society was restored in the early nineteenth century, the Jesuits with considerable success, especially in North America, revived their tradition.” 

The Enlightenment thinkers got their inspiration for reasoning and logic from St. Thomas Aquinas. He revived the writings of the Greek philosopher Aristotle and other Greek philosophers. Aquinas and all the scholastics who followed after him used logic to advance and defend the teachings of Roman Catholicism. The men of the Enlightenment used it to attack the Roman Catholic Church and all religious belief itself, as being unreasonable. What many believe culminated in the French Revolution was: 1. The judgments of God on the Aristocracy for it’s suppression of the Bible and the Gospel. 2. The judgments of God on the Aristocracy for it’s neglect and enslavement of the poor. 3. The French Revolution was the hidden tool of the Jesuit order against Roman Catholicism and the Pope which resulted in the decline of the Papacy in 1798 and the birth of the United States of America in 1776! These philosophers also influenced positive progression of society that gave men and eventually woman, freedom, where once they had been slaves! Look as the freedom’s we all have now compared to 400 years ago: education, freedom of speech, right to vote, hold property, access to books and knowledge, health care, travel, entrepreneurship! In medieval Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, there was only a cast system were the majority served the rich and the few! Although these men under evil influence set out to go against God by promoting atheism, God is in control! 

‘The Enlightenment: History, Documents, and Key Questions,’ edited by William E. Burns

‘Life of Napoleon,’ by Sir Walter Scott

‘How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It,’ by Arthur Herman

The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment,’ By Roy Porter

The New Age Movement

 

 

Anti-Supernatural?

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

The Bible (John 1) is a guide for mankind to bring us into communication with our Creator! The Bible tells us of a war of good versus evil! We know that evil exists we’ve seen it! People blame God for the bad things that happen, which is understandable! But from a Biblical perspective of theodicy or the problem of evil makes sense, because God is accused of being unjust and his government unnecessary! So there’s a trial going on and the scientific method is being employed! Do we need God’s government or anarchy? Satan is the cause of all our woe! In a perfect world what are the odds of having evil come into existence? It’s probably as remote and just as inevitable as Jesus Christ who fulfilled over 100 Messianic Prophecies! Satan is just a real as Jesus Christ, he is the one who brought sin and suffering into the world with a lie – ‘you can be like God!’ That was Lucifer’s sin, he a created being, wanted to be worshiped like the Creator! Since the time of Cain, Satan has worked on the hearts and minds of men and women his accusation of God’s unfairness and built his own religion which points to himself! The Bible is the opposite of this religion! The religion I speak of is occultism, paganism and spiritualism! The ancient civilizations such as Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome, worshiped the devil in various male and female forms, copying some aspects of God’s religion, the Sanctuary service of Israel and Apostolic Christianity! They had the same deities with different names in each culture, worshiping the Sun and nature. This is not a slight to anyone of any religion, this is a summary of the history of religion! God has people who are good and just in all religions who will be saved! But God makes clear distinction in the Bible between how he wants to be worshiped versus paganism! From the time of Christ to the 1600s, the ancient religions of Babylon, Greece, Egypt and Rome were thought to have been eradicated, but were actually in hiding and were eventually incorporated into Roman Catholicism. The Reformation tore apart this system to bring people back to Bible Christianity. Well the Devil didn’t like that! So he sought to bring back paganism. This started with the Renaissance, then the Enlightenment Era with: Greek philosophy, skepticism, politics and science. The secret societies utilized pagan rituals in it’s societies which cunningly was anti-Rome. The Jesuit Order was dissolved in 1773 and went underground, which many Enlightenment Era men rejoiced to hear! Men, sadly lacking women, had freedom to believe or not to believe in God! After 1773, a series of Revolutions took place: the Boston Tea Party in 1773, the Declaration of Independence is signed in 1776, Treaty of Paris in 1783, The French Revolution in 1789, Napoleon rises to power in 1796. See ‘Revolutions, Tyrants and Wars.’

“The only people in the world, it seems, who believe in the conspiracy theory of history are those of us who have studied it.” Fredrick Tupper Saussy, Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge of Governing Bodies.

The 1700s brought major changes that further developed our modern world. The ideals and Greek philosophy of the Enlightenment thinkers were later adopted by the Founding Fathers and the founders of other republics. Rationalism replaced faith in the supernatural. Sir Isaac Newton’s work ‘Principia Mathematica,’ advanced science by exclaiming that nature can be studied and calculated to find answers through mathematics. The politics of the day gave more power to the people over divine rule. The Enlightenment thinkers also criticized the Bible and all forms of the supernatural, yet paganism and spiritualism secretly prospered which has everything to do with the supernatural. You cannot deny God’s existence without denying the existence of evil and Satan. Evil exists and so does God, those who deny this are: “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were made…” Some don’t want God to exist so there is no law nor law giver and therefore no judgment. We have freedom of choice! God doesn’t force us to worship him! But as Blaise Pascal stated in his, ‘The Wager,’ there is a 50/50 chance God either exists or he doesn’t, and it’s wise to conduct oneself as though he does exist, because in doing so there is no risk involved, only the chance of a great reward!”