How Robespierre's Hostility toward Traditional Religion led to the Terror

Maximilian Robespierre wanted to replace what he considered an outdated Christianity, whose clergy were associated with the corrupt aristocratic regime, with a modern religion that gave sanctity to revolution and its leadership, the Committee of Public Safety as the new prophets. In his first speech during the Festival of the Supreme Being in 1794, Robespierre indicated that the sole deity worthy of worship is his Supreme Being and that the only true religion was that of the Cult of the Sup...