Posted on 01/11/2016 7:54:20 AM PST by stars & stripes forever
On July 4, 1798, Timothy Dwight gave an address in New Haven titled "The Duty of Americans at the Present Crisis."
A grandson of Princeton president Jonathan Edwards, he could read at age 4 and entered Yale at 13.
He was a chaplain in the Continental Army until his father died.
Then, as the eldest of 13 children, he worked the family farm to pay off debts.
He served in the very first session of the Massachusetts State Legislature.
His name was Timothy Dwight IV, and he died JANUARY 11, 1817.
Timothy Dwight IV was Yale's 8th president, serving from 1795 to 1817. In this address, he explained how Voltaire's atheism inspired the French Revolution and it's Reign of Terror, 1793-1794, where 40,000 people were beheaded and 300,000 were butchered in the Vendée:
"About the year 1728, Voltaire, so celebrated for his wit and brilliancy and not less distinguished for his hatred of Christianity and his abandonment of principle, formed a systematical design to destroy Christianity and to introduce in its stead a general diffusion of irreligion and atheism...
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Nothing is new under the sun.
Sadly at Yale today, Voltaire has won, and Dwight has lost
God-fearing Americans worked to make America the greatest nation on earth while academia stole its soul.
Good point, but I would change “worked” to “have worked” and “stole” to “has been trying to steal”.
We haven’t lost and we are strong.
:-)
Thank you.
Very good explanation of what began the downfall of French society.
Diabolical in design, nothing new, and seems familiar today...
Sadly, the freedom of savages is the best we can hope for. The population, even many who are nominally Christian and more-or-less conservative, are firmly convinced that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,", means the total, utter, irreconcilable separation of every Christian moral principle from the practice off governance.
The seeds of it were planted, IMHO, around 150 years ago, and the bitter weed that result was firmly entwined long before anyone could have imagined.
[We haven’t lost and we are strong.]
Right. 2 Chronicles 7:14. It is up to the Christians to stand.
I hope you aren’t attributing the quote in post 6 to me because it isn’t mine.
Did you intend your comment for a different poster?
pax
No, it was from the article.
Okay! I suspected, but, being a good FReeper I didn’t read the article. ;-)
My experience has been that people are mostly good, whether religious or not.
I see real hope for much more than only the freedom of savages.
I agree: Christians and all people of good will.
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Thanks for posting this.
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it’s Reign of Terror
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Should be “its”.
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