[Kozak]

Big deal. The period was heavily influenced by Classical culture, we were TRYING to model our new system after the Roman Republic and democratic Athens, even Sparta was tossed in.

[mason-dixon]

If you want to see a shrine to secularism, go into the Library of Congress.... the wall murals include a pantheon on “rathionalist” but no references to the source of truth, God.

[Westbrook]

> during the French Revolution crowds took the Cathedral of
> Notre Dame and the replaced the altar with an altar to
> Liberty.

First they slaughtered all the nuns and priests they could find.

Then part of the mob took a street whore and dressed her with a sash with the words, “La Dietee de Raison” (The Goddess of Reason). They then placed the whore, thus attired, on the altar in the church of Notre Dame and mock-worshipped her.

“Liberte’! Egalite’! Fraternite’!”

Sounds like large swathes of the demonRAT party to me.

[AnAmericanMother]

Bit of an overstatement.

It's just the classicising influence on art generally - the statue of Washington as Zeus was rejected almost instantly by everybody and stashed in a basement - not because it deified Washington but because it showed him essentially naked. The "Apotheosis of Washington" is a little bit over the top, but pretty much according to form - you can find all sorts of famous persons "apotheosized" in similar situations.

My personal favorite is the horrendous sentimental mish-mash of goofy (fake) Celtic mythology and French romantic tackiness in Girodet's "Apothéose des héros français morts pour la patrie pendant la guerre de la liberté" of 1805:

This is so outstandingly BAD that you don't really know where to start. The whole thing is based on McPherson's fraudulent "Ossian" poems, which took Europe by storm to the point that everybody was stuck pretending they were real. The blind bard Ossian is welcoming Napoleon's dead generals, Joubert and Hoche among them, into paradise. The Gallic rooster and Victory are chasing off the Austrian eagle . . . all sorts of other silly stuff going on.

[stormer]

I don’t think this author understand the meaning of the term “pagan”.

[Dr. Thorne]

Hey, at least they don’t have pagan icons like statues of Mary and “the saints” to worship.

[babble-on]

Next thing they’ll be telling us that Christmas itself is full of Pagan symbols. Sheesh!

[Vendome]

Good bye Blog Pimp....

[Vendome]

IBTZ...

[cripplecreek]

Illuminati

[Zionist Conspirator]

Only three?

Contemporary conservatives underestimate the influence of the "enlightenment" on the Founding Fathers and the origins of the United States.