Message from @Riley
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The entire era.
French revolution up through the end of the wars of the coalition
The main reason I like it is it helped spread good ideas through Europe
like separation of church and state, constitutionalism, ect
Those are not good ideas.
Objectively
whats wrong with them
i kinda like the rule of the law
its much better than submitting to some pampered inbred king
That's a meme understanding of monarchism
Heavily implying that pre-Napoleonic monarchs just ran around the country doing whatever the hell they wanted because they were the king right?
There have always been many checks and balances in monarchies.
well there was clearly something wrong. Maybe we should look at the causes of the French revolution
and see what they were unhappy about
well I know they were pretty unhappy about the tax burden. The Seven Year's war really fucked up France's economy, so they had to raise taxes
not to mention the American revolution!
@Deleted User so why would the monarch only raise taxes on the third estate?
the Tithe was also something id be pissed off about if I was living in France at the time
like wtf
Everything you listed as things that BTFO the French monarchy did not end with the Republic or Napoleon, in fact they got worse. The 7 Year's war racked up lot's of debt, sure, but Napoleon's conquests also racked up lot's of debt. It's called running a country.
And the monarchy taxed the shiteating peasants because since the dawn up until this very day tax burden has always fallen primarily to them.
As for the tithe look at history in the context it took place, the people of France at the time had not been conditioned for generations by liberalism to despise religion as you are now.
you have to admit that the tithe is pretty shitty
10%
We're talking about the French revolution and the events that followed it. You literally cannot try to separate the revolution from Napoleon.
can you imagine paying 10% of everything you make to the church
I already do.
wat
I'm Catholic
lmfao
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I use to be a catholic
"haha u believe in religion in [current year]??"
Very funny
back like
idk
a year ago
for most of my life
Doubt it
why
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Going to Church doesn't make you Christian, having a spiritual connection with God does and if you ever had one you wouldn't be a godless freak of nature now.