Does anyone else feel a bit of disgust at the violence surrounding the French Revolution?
Yes. The violence seems to be linked to deism. “The Revolutionary Tribunal was a court which was instituted in Paris by the Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders, and became one of the most powerful engines of the Reign of Terror.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutiona… “Through the Revolutionary Tribunal, the Terror’s leaders exercised broad dictatorial powers and used them to instigate mass executions and political purges.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Te… Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre “was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror that ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. Robespierre was influenced by 18th century Enlightenment philosophes such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Montesquieu, and he was a capable articul
