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A simple, reason-based state religion with basic dogmas and an exclusion of intolerance, used to ground the secular French nation-state.
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civil religion
A simple, reason-based state religion with basic dogmas and an exclusion of intolerance, used to ground the secular French nation-state.
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Rousseau's civil religion rejects a Christian republic, separates church and state, and helps create the basis for the French nation-state.
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A religion based on reason bypasses priests because humans can use reason to access God and deduce basic civil dogmas from first principles.
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"...revolutionaries who want to establish a secular state the dogmas of civil religion ought to be few simple and exactly worded with no explanation..."
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"the cult we have rejected okay so what we're saying here is that the new society should now have a new religion a state..."
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"Our ideas of religion become transplanted into the nation. Okay? So people will also die for the nation. That's why you have these incredibly..."
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"This system doesn't really work. Right? Because you have reason. And, therefore, you have the capacity to access God. So you don't really need..."
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"Well, that doesn't contradict what we already believe. Therefore, you can believe that animals can go to heaven as well. Okay? Do you understand?..."
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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