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	Cult of the Supreme Being - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) was a religion based on deism devised by Maximilien Robespierre, intended to become the state religion after the French Revolution.
		The cult represents an innovation in the "de-Christianization" of French society during the Revolution, in that Robespierre sought to move beyond simple agnosticism (often described as Voltairean by its adherents) to a new and, in his view, more rational devotion to the Godhead.
		Robespierre's proclamation of the cult as the new state religion in 1794 was possibly one of the factors that prompted the Thermidorian Reaction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being (243 words)

	Cult of Reason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In opposition, Maximilien Robespierre, a Deist, instituted the Cult of the Supreme Being.
		The Cult of Reason was intended to complement, in the religious sphere, the radical opposition of the enragés to Robespierre's political project.
		Both cults were the outcome of the "de-Christianization" of French society during the Revolution, and suffered during the Thermidorian Reaction and Napoleon Bonaparte's rapprochement with Roman Catholicism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cult_of_Reason (194 words)

	Cult of the Supreme Being
		The Cult of the Supreme Being is exactly the kind of religion you might expect a committee of government bureaucrats to produce -- generic, efficient and completely uninspired.
		The festival of the Supreme Being was set on June 8, 1794, or whatever the fuck that translates as in metric.
		The only tenets of the Cult were that the Supreme Being existed and that man had an immortal soul.
	www.rotten.com /library/religion/cult_of_the_supreme_being (1530 words)

	Ideology of Robespierre
		Thus, Robespierre's introduction to the Cult of the Supreme Being was intended to appeal to all religious minded revolutionaries, whether professedly Christian or not.
		In the theory of the Supreme Being, evil is possessed by men who oppress his fellow man. Robespierre preached that the duties of man, according to obeying the Supreme Being, were to help the less fortunate, punish tyrants and traitors, and behave with justice towards all men.
		Yet Robespierre was not hindered by their disapproval and headed the inaugural festival of the Supreme Being, which he believed was to remind men of the deity and dignity of their state.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~etanter/ideology2.html (373 words)

	Cult Movies: The Supreme Court: A new edition of the Chief Justice's classic history - $24.85 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rеhnquist sets a simрlе goal for himself: "This book is designed to соnvеу to the interested, informed layman, as well as lawyers who do not specialize in constitutional law, a better understanding of the rоlе of the Supreme Court in American government." He succeeds fabulously.
		The Supreme Court, an updated version of a book originally published in 1987, is a succinct and readable account of the Court's past and present.
		Rehnquist makes it clear that the Supreme Court is made up of individuals, and because of this the Supreme Court is not only susceptible to human need, but inevitably to human error as wеll.
	www.cultmoviesstore.com /tvr30333735343039343332.html (1794 words)

	EUH Documents
		His descendants took still more upon them, in proportion to their distance from him; the more obscure and uncertain the cause, the greater the effect: the greater the number of idlers one could count in a family, the more illustrious it was held to be.
		These differences are of several kinds; riches, nobility or rank, power and personal merit being the principal distinctions by which men form an estimate of each other in society, I could prove that the harmony or conflict of these different forces is the surest indication of the good or bad constitution of a State.
		I have endeavoured to trace the origin and progress of inequality, and the institution and abuse of political societies, as far as these are capable of being deduced from the nature of man merely by the light of reason, and independently of those sacred dogmas which give the sanction of divine right to sovereign authority.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~velez/frdoc1.html (13717 words)

	E3 06: Supreme Commander Exclusive Preview - Details on Factions, Gameplay, and the Theater of War - PC News at GameSpot
		Supreme Commander is one of the most exciting real-time strategy games on the horizon.
		Supreme Commander is set in the future, one in which humanity has split into three warring factions.
		Supreme Commander won't be mistaken for a wargame.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/strategy/supremecommander/news.html?sid=6148537 (1219 words)

	Modern History Sourceboook: Robespierre: the Supreme Being (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Some were anti-religion, but Robespierre was interested in religion, and promoted a state cult, first of Supreme Reason and then later of the Supreme Being.
		This a case of Deism being made a state religion.
		Being of Beings, Author of Nature, the brutalized slave, the vile instrument of despotism, the perfidious and cruel aristocrat, outrages Thee by his very invocation of Thy name.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/robespierre-supreme.html (1210 words)

	Supreme Truth - the Japanese Cult
		On July 6, 1998, Japanese prosecutors formally demanded the first death sentence for a member of the cult at the trial of Kazuaki Okazaki, 37, who is charged with the 1989 murders of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, his wife and one-year-old baby son.
		The prosecution said Sakamoto was murdered for investigating the activities of the Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) sect ahead of the the subway attack.
		The murdered lawyer was working for parents trying to rescue their children from the cult at the time he and his family were killed.
	www.masonicinfo.com /supreme.htm (902 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Theophilanthropists
		The legal substitution of the Constitutional Church, the worship of reason, and the cult of the Supreme Being in place of the Catholic Religion had practically resulted in atheism and immorality.
		Blended in a way with the culte décadaire, it came into possession of some of the great churches of Paris like Notre Dame, St-Jacques du Haut Pas, St-Médard etc; it took a conspicuous part in all the national celebrations, and from the metropolis passed into the provinces, chiefly the Department of Yonne.
		The existence of God and the immortality of the soul, being purely sentimental beliefs (croyances de sentiment) deemed necessary for the preservation of society and the welfare of individuals.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14624a.htm (1017 words)

	AUM cult reviving, survey finds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The survey report said that the cult now has 15 branches and one training hall in Japan and that there are AUM followers living in about 110 places across the nation.
		At cult seminars, AUM followers still look up to Asahara as the absolute being and are again being taught a dogma that justifies even murder on behalf of the cult, they said.
		In Tokyo and elsewhere, the cult owns 12 companies and five shops, among which are personal computer sales companies dealing in products on the Internet, assembling personal computer parts imported from Taiwan for sale in Japan and handing their income over to the cult, the report said.
	www.factnet.org /cults/aum_shin_rikyo/aum.htm (721 words)

	Decree of the Supreme Being
		It considers that the most important of these duties are: to detest bad faith and despotism, to punish tyrants and traitors, to assist the unfortunate, to respect the weak, to defend the oppressed, to do all the good one can to one's neighbour, and to behave with justice towards all men.
		It shall celebrate, on successive décadis, the following festivals: the Supreme Being, and Nature; the human race; the French people; the benefactors of mankind; the martyrs of freedom; liberty and equality; the Republic; the liberty of the world; patriotism; hatred of tyrants and traitors; truth; justice; courage; modesty; glory; heroism; posterity; happiness.
		There shall be celebrated, upon the 20th Prairial next, a national festival in honour of the Supreme Being.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~etanter/decreesupreme.html (435 words)

	Scientology --- truth vs cult hype / fiction...antidote for elronitis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I know that asking for observed anomalies in the Ron cult is like asking to spot leaves in the Amazon jungle, but it could be of interest and use to post them here.
		I invite all who have retained some sanity after cult abuse, (please pass through the mental detector before posting....hehe) to post what was hype and what was truth.
		The enforced diversion of the free will into Hellron's self-serving cult deprives the individual of freedom and subverts their life-time to slavery to stats, points and G.I. Instead of delivering pan-determinism the cult delivers total other- determinism by slavery to "routing forms", C/s's, E.Os and Mgt whims.
	www.holysmoke.org /cos/cult-hiding-crimes.htm (523 words)

	Japan Court Rejects Appeal by Cult Guru, Japan Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by Doomsday Cult Founder, Paving the Way ...
		The defense team for the former leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult had argued he was mentally unstable and did not understand the proceedings against him.
		The Supreme Court voted to reject the former guru's appeal, said Naoki Katayama, a court spokesman, but he refused to say whether this would lead automatically to Asahara's execution.
		Flush with cash, the cult amassed an arsenal of chemical, biological and conventional weapons in anticipation of an apocalyptic showdown with the government.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/09/15/ap/world/mainD8K5FPVG5.shtml (895 words)

	THE MEANING OF PEACE IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND CULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is anthropocentric because the actions of God and the other spiritual beings are generally directed towards humans for their sustenance and well-being; and infra-human realities are thought to be ordered towards the promotion of human life.
		Being at the centre of a universe so ordered, the human being establishes a network of relationships, according to the hierarchical order of things in order to maintain the primordial harmony and equilibrium.
		Human beings are so made by nature that they can only realize themselves and their common destiny in collaboration with one another.
	www.afrikaworld.net /afrel/goddionah.htm (7795 words)

	Maximilien de Robespierre et Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just
		Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was one of the leaders of the Committee of Public Safety, the effective governing body of France during the most radical phase of the revolution.
		The law of self-preservation, with every being whether physical or moral, is the first law of nature.
		The French people recognize the existence of the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul.
	www.geocities.com /robespierre_et_saintjust/speeches.html (4187 words)

	CNN.com - ASIANOW - Court sentences Japanese cult member to death - June 29, 2000
		TOKYO -- A former senior member of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult was sentenced Thursday to death by the Tokyo District Court for his role in the 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway system.
		Hayashi is the second member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, or Cult of the Supreme Truth, to be sentenced to death.
		The cult has changed its name and insists that it is now a benign religious group.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/06/29/japan.cult (607 words)

	NYFWH 10: Dark Day, Metric System, Robespierre, Cult of the Supreme Being, Tambora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most French privately scorned their new calendar for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that workers could only take one day off from every ten instead of every seven.
		The new religion, a pet project of terrormeister Maximilien Robespierre, was called the Cult of the Supreme Being.
		Robespierre orchestrated an inaugural CSB festival which mandated everyone to dress in tricolor uniforms and move to and fro in formation.
	www.curiousnotions.com /curiosity-019.html (1056 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Sun Rising In The East On Priests And Altars
		For Christians, the rising of the sun was seen as a cosmic symbol of the light of the resurrected Christ dispelling the darkness of sin and death.
		As St. Cyril of Jerusalem wrote, "Since the west is the region of sensible darkness, and he being darkness has his dominion also in darkness, therefore, looking with a symbolical meaning towards the west, you renounce that dark and gloomy potentate." Many Christians also believed that Eden had been in the east, not the west.
		In the United States, where the predominant culture has always been Protestant and somewhat hostile to foreign cults, it was hard for Roman Catholics to adapt to liturgical changes without borrowing heavily from the familiar showbiz techniques of the entertainment industry.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4081 (3821 words)

	Theophilanthropists
		Blended in a way with the culte dé, it came into possession of some of the great churches of Paris like Notre Dame, St-Jacques du Haut Pas, St-Mé etc; it took a conspicuous part in all the national celebrations, and from the metropolis passed into the provinces, chiefly the Department of Yonne.
		The movement, in spite of a strong opposition not only on the part of Catholics but also from Constitutionals and Philosophers, was gradually taking hold of the masses when the Directory brought it to an abrupt end.
		The moral teaching considered by far the principal feature of the movement, held a middle position between the severity of Stoicism and the laxity of Epicureanism.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/theophilanthropists.html (1009 words)

	Shoko Asahara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, members of the cult later confessed this was also seen as a means to delay and/or prevent anticipated government action against the group.
		The cult was stripped of much of its assets through claims filed by victims of its gas attack.
		Asahara remains in prison and his lawyers claim the cult leader is "mentally incompetent." He reportedly is confined to a wheelchair, incontinent and unable to respond to anyone in an intelligible manner.
	www.culteducation.com /asahara.html (952 words)

	Do Latter-day Saints Belong to a Cult? Issues of the Trinity, the Bible, Jesus Christ, God, and Modern Christianity
		That description sounds like a classic cult: a close-knit group, heavily involved with and committed to their religion, influenced by dynamic leaders, making large financial sacrifices for their group, spending lots of time together, recruiting new converts, and acting like those in their group were on the path to salvation.
		Many victims become evangelists for their cult, often wearing sweaters and jackets displaying the occult logos or symbols of their particular "team," and sometimes paying large amounts of money and waiting hours in line just for a chance to observe a competitive ritual involving their branch of the cult.
		Members of this cult worship a book called the Bible, believing that they can put all trust in their human translations of multiple competing versions of copies of ancient texts (no originals are left to check which copies are best!).
	www.jefflindsay.com /LDSFAQ/FQ_cult.shtml (13437 words)

	The Hawaiian Supreme God
		One of the results of this book; is the proposition that the supreme God was known by various names in the different cultures, so there are those who pray to the Hawaiian God Io claiming he is the same God of the Bible.
		The Maori preserved the purity of his conception of the Supreme Being by means of withholding it from the bulk of the people, hence Io was never degraded to the level of a tribal war-god, as was the case with Jahweh.
		He concluded it was specifically a bird cult primarily for the hawk and secondly for the owl.
	www.letusreason.org /Current68.htm (4095 words)

	Maximilien Robespierre
		Robespierre demanded that the king be put to death for the good of the French Republic, and in January 1793, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were beheaded.
		Under Robespierre's leadership, droves of people suspected of being resistant to the Jacobin party's policies were systematically killed during bloody public executions.
		He sought to use the cult as a tool to unify the masses against the Revolution's enemies.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2robespierre.htm (960 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the Christian demonstration outside the Supreme Court that morning, one of the speakers remarked, as she reminded her listeners that "the Soviet Union was definitely not a nation under God," that "I guess it's not a surprise that if you don't acknowledge God you don't care about lying." Are there no religious liars?
		But the conservatives were not the only ones at the Supreme Court who denied religion by the manner in which they defended it.
		It is that nobody worships a "very comprehensive supreme being, Seeger-type thing." Such a level of generality, a "generic" God, is religiously senseless.
	faculty.smu.edu /jkobylka/newsItems/wieseltier.htm (2282 words)

	May 7: Supreme Being Declared by Revolution
		Robespierre saw the need for belief in a Supreme Being, so he invented one based on the Judeo-Christian God.
		That June, Robespierre organized a festival of the Supreme Being.
		History of Christianity is a survey course designed to stimulate your curiosity by providing glimpses of some of the pivotal events in the spread Christianity and sketches of great Christian figures who have significantly affected Christian history thereby shaping the history of the world.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/05/daily-05-07-2002.shtml (560 words)

	Lecture 15: Europe and the Superior Being: Napoleon
		In Italy I realized I was a superior being and conceived the ambition of performing great things, which hitherto had filled my thoughts only as a fantastic dream.
		The Temples of Reason (i.e., the churches) and the Cult of the Supreme Being, erected in the early 1790s, were too abstract for Napoleon.
		After Napoleon there was no turning back: feudalism was dead, society was secularized, the modern nation state replaced the dynastic state, and the bourgeoisie became the new class of privilege and status.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/lecture15a.html (2711 words)

	History Seniors Present Their Senior Thesis
		It showed that he was very religious compared to the Anglicized view of being an atheist.
		Because he brought God back in a compromise between Reason and Catholicism in his Cult of the Supreme Being, the people adored him.
		Furthermore, Robespiere was a man of principle as he refused to be corrupted with money or wealth during the Revolution as he saw himself as a public servant.
	www.puc.edu /Departments/History/Newsletters/0304/patsenioirthesis.html (478 words)

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