FRENCH REVOLUTION BIRTH PANGS OF SOCIALISM
INSPIRED WESTERN SOCIALISM AND MILLIONS DEAD

If there his any one event that shows the need to understand philosophy and proper biblical hermeneutics, it is the French Revolution which was a product of ungodly {asebeia} philosophy (Ro 1:18). Continuation of our previous post, Ubermensch Reborn in BLM and Socialism, we will briefly explore the roots of this germinal revolution that very understand even today as its propaganda continues to advertise it as a revolution of freedom like the American Revolution; nothing could be further from the truth. The French Revolution was Satan’s, and Man’s, first attempt at modern absolute Control {Sin: Coveting Control}.

Medievalism was the tyranny of Roman Catholic (RCC) Control over every aspect of life from the castle to the bedroom. RCC was based on gnostic paganistic neo-Platonism and neo-Aristotelian politico-religious-philosophical thoughts so loosely based on the Bible as to defy its association with the true Gospel of the Bible. It was Hermeneutics designed to support the Control goals of the RCC; not the salvation of souls from sin. The Reformation, Protestantism, promised to free societies from RCC tyranny; however, this promise was drowned out in the torrent of war and blood that followed as Protestantism competed with RCC for governmental Control. The resulting 200+ years of war disgusted Western culture with any thought of biblical belief, especially salvation from sin. Out of this morass caused by Satan and sin arose philosophers who offered another solution: a world free from religion; a another lie but promising less bloodshed (Jn 8:44). The reality would be much more horrendous for Western culture and eventual for the entire world. Those who believe that hermeneutics is a worthless endeavor contributed to this bloodshed. Those who dismiss philosophy as a dry exercise of academia devoid of possible use to everyday people became willing slaves of Satan’s Control. This became the birth of Satan’s delusion to finally Control the World and Man (2Th 2:3-12).

The French Revolution’s motto: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is both contradictory and nihilistic. The thought that storming a government prison would bring peace is akin to thinking that war brings prosperity {the propagandistic myth of how the Great Depression supposedly ended}. But, how did it begin; or, more importantly, why did it begin? Yes, France was nearly bankrupt due to pointless wars. Yes, the aristocracy was isolated from the plight of the citizens it carelessly ruled. And yes, the French RCC exercised tyrannical Control with near impunity. But, what caused the people to rebel, to commit the very sin God condemned and refused to commit Himself in the Bible (1Sa 15:23)?

GODDESS OF REASON WITH PHRYGIAN CAP
GUIDING LIGHT OF LIBERTY AGAINST TYRANNY

Philosophy was unleashed during the Renaissance. Originally based on belief in an orderly God making understanding nature a reasonable process, the Enlightenment sought to remove God by substituting Man as God. The heart of the original lie of Satan to Woman (Ge 3:5). Philosophical Foundations of the French Revolution and National Dechristianization, Aspiring Theologian, gives a brief overview of several of these philosophers. We will begin with Baruch Spinoza.

Spinoza, an atheistic Jew {a theme that will frequently appear throughout socialism}, disavowed a personal God of the Bible. He taught that God contained Nature; i.e., panentheism. He believed in a deterministic kosmos dating back to Plato and Aristotle which was in direct opposition to Christianity post-Medieval. Spinoza’s views gave subsequent philosophers permission to view God as an abstract apart from the Bible. God was not the source of morality.

Pierre Bayle went further. His contribution determined, in his own mind, that religion and reason were mutually incompatible. According to Bayle’s analysis or reason, biblical concepts were devoid of truth and all concepts based on these corrupted concepts were likewise devoid of truth. This was possible because of Nicolas Malebranche’s theodicy, God was responsible for evil; though he excuses God by stating that it was an unintended consequence of this Creation. Thus, God is both fallible and capricious as He punishes Man for His errors of judgment. Notice, philosophy moves from God is Nature to God is fallible to religion is incompatible with Man’s Reason. Bayle was a Huguenot, French Protestant, before France, RCC, murderously wiped them out using willing French RCC citizens making murder the norm; a norm that would come back to haunt the RCC during the French Revolution.

Voltaire brought Deism to France from England as a first step to destroying RCC Control. Deism was an attempt of reasonable people to maintain a belief in some God while rejecting the Bible’s God; Thomas Jefferson was such a person; he compared the Bible to a dung heap with a few precious truths in essence. Voltaire championed the separation of State and Church criticizing the contamination of natural philosophy with religious metaphysics. Natural philosophy later split into philosophy and Science, Reason, after the French Revolution. Thus, Voltaire built upon the earlier work of Montequieu who advocated checks and balances and religious tolerance; however, laws should never be based on religious beliefs but on Reason! Again, a reliance on Man, not God.