Do you believe that the French Revolution damaged the human faith in God and Christianity as a whole?

Not a homework question. Just looking for good detailed answers.I have been studying the French Revolution in great detail and I am starting to think it actually worsened humanity- at least in France.Do you believe that the French Revolution damaged the human faith in God and Christianity as a whole?
It did damage it in my opinion. Just look at the Reign of Terror. It amazes me how low humanity sunk during that time period - people just opposed to the revolution were executed. Everything about the Revolution definitely damaged faith in God and Christianity. Why would God let that happen, why would he let all those people die - whether it was a good cause or not.



You back someone far enough in a corner, and they're bound to react. That's what happened in the French Revolution. People were so tired of the monarchy that they decided to take the matter into their own hands. Humanity isn't perfect, that's for sure, but it's human nature to take charge of their goals.Do you believe that the French Revolution damaged the human faith in God and Christianity as a whole?
I would agree, 危伪蟻伪, it worsened humanity. The executions based on uncorroborated testimony, the mass murder of priests and nuns, the endless brutality of the Reign of Terror...why anyone would try to justify it by bringing up previous crimes committed in the name of God is beyond me. That so much of it was done in the name of "reason" underlines an important point. Horrors committed in the name of God or Reason don't impugn either. They only show that humans are capable of terrible evil, regardless of who or what they use to justify it.



But damage faith in God? Quite the opposite. The Committee for Public Safety launched a campaign to exterminate faith in God. Worship was forbidden, all church property was seized, women were beaten on their way to church. It didn't work. Peasants took huge risks to give shelter to hunted priests, even attacked agents of the revolution..and finally, in the region called the Vendee, they revolted. The Committee sent an army, with explicit instructions to exterminate the people of the Vendee. Men, women and children by the hundreds were tied up, towed to the middle of rivers in barges, and sunk. Cannon were loaded with grapeshot to effect mass executions. One General -- Westermann -- bragged in writing about trampling women and children with horses and boasted that there was no one left to kill in the Vendee.



None of it worked. The "Cult of Reason" failed miserably, it's proponents guillotining each other. People fall away when there's nothing at stake, when belief in God has no cost. In France, believers rode out the horrors of anti-religious genocide, helped each other, their faith not only intact, but strengthened by the struggle.Do you believe that the French Revolution damaged the human faith in God and Christianity as a whole?
It's tricky, you have to take the change as a whole and not just focus on the worst excesses. The french were ultimately saved by Napol茅on who's only real fault was too great a desire to spread his saviour status throughout the rest of Europe. But the revolution and the justice that came with it did ultimately spread greater freedoms throughout the world.
After the Crusades, the Inquisition, and people being hanged or burned at the stake for being a witch, by Christians, I don't know how it could get worse.