{"id":4572,"date":"2015-01-27T23:03:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T04:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:07:50","slug":"la-marseillaise-and-the-cult-of-the-supreme-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/01\/27\/la-marseillaise-and-the-cult-of-the-supreme-being\/","title":{"rendered":"La Marseillaise and The Cult of the Supreme Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<em>The Cult of Supreme Being,\u00a0<\/em>Robespierre focused intensely on the correlation between God and revolution. Robespierre&#8217;s focus on God discredited the divine right claimed by the French monarchs. While absolutists claimed their title to the throne was granted to the by God, Robespierre claimed the opposite, stating that God did not create kings to &#8220;devour the human race.&#8221; He did not support many enlightened thinkers of the era,who wished to distance the goals of the revolution from Christianity. Rather,\u00a0Robespierre legitimizes the revolutionary cause by claiming that God supported freedom and the revolution.<\/p>\n<p><em>La Marseillaise<\/em>, on the other hand, has some major differences than\u00a0<em>The Cult of the Supreme Being.\u00a0<\/em>For one, it is not a religiously based document, and it is also a direct call to arms. Robespierre&#8217;s document is a religious justification of the revolution, while\u00a0<em>La Marseillaise\u00a0<\/em>implores direct action to be taken. Translated to English, the song cries of revolution, demanding fields to be watered with blood, and that the revolutionaries demand liberty or death. These documents are key revolutionary pieces, although they have different motives. One document is a justification of war, while the other demands action to be taken against the monarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0The Cult of Supreme Being,\u00a0Robespierre focused intensely on the correlation between God and revolution. Robespierre&#8217;s focus on God discredited the divine right claimed by the French monarchs. While absolutists claimed their title to the throne was granted to the by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/01\/27\/la-marseillaise-and-the-cult-of-the-supreme-being\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110560],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist107-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}