During the French Revolution, France set aside Christianity and in public forum denounced the God of Heaven. The world for the first time heard an assembly of men, born and educated in civilization, and assuming the right to govern one of the finest of the European nations, uplift their united voice to deny the most solemn truth which mans soul receives, and renounced unanimously the belief and worship of a Deity. On October 23, 1793, just nine days after Queen Marie Atoinette was executed, the Republican Calendar was decreed. Pierre Sylvain Maréchal, who originally proposed the change, declared: the calendar...
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