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| | www.palladiummag.com
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| | [AI summary] The article discusses the life and legacy of Abbé Gregoire, a key figure in the French Revolution, emphasizing his role in the regeneration of society through republican institutions. It traces his influence on global movements, including the abolition of slavery, the rise of republics in Latin America, and the adaptation of regeneration ideology in Asia and Zionism. The piece highlights how the Revolution's structural logic, rather than its Enlightenment ideals, became the foundation for modern state-building and national identity formation worldwide, despite the collapse of the Enlightenment's original cultural conditions.
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| | Secular reaction can't work. As Bruce Charlton pointed out yesterday, secular cultures must tend always leftward - i.e., toward chaos and death - because at bottom they are guidedand governed by disordered passions and desires, and so furthermore are careless of their danger. This will be as true of their noblest exponents and leaders as...
| | historyforatheists.com
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| | Johnstone's book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how history is mythologised to present religion as inescapably prone to violence and discrimination, whilst the darker side of atheist history, such as its involvement in Stalinism, is denied.
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| Edward VI, King of England (1537-1553) was the only legitimate son of Henry VIII, who broke away from the Catholic Church in order to obtain a divorce from his wife after twenty years of marriage had produced only one daughter, later Mary I. Henry was always a deeply religious man and despite launching the English [...]