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Originally Posted by suzzer99
So do you destroy the Pantheon too?
This is in the ballpark of the Taliban blowing up Buddhist statues imo.
It's a beautiful iconic building and it means everything to Parisians.
Parisians will survive its destruction. I think you’ll be surprised by how little it means to people.
Nobody today believes the gods worshipped in the pantheon are real so there’s no point in destroying it or Egyptian relics or what have you from lost civilizations. Religion is an anchor around humanity’s neck (with the exception of satanism, which is objectively cool af)
During the French Revolution, a group of good guys tried to dechristianize France and replace the church with a
"cult of reason":
In ceremonies devised and organised by Chaumette, churches across France were transformed into modern Temples of Reason. The largest ceremony of all was at the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. The Christian altar was dismantled and an altar to Liberty was installed and the inscription "To Philosophy" was carved in stone over the cathedral's doors. Festive girls in white Roman dress and tricolor sashes milled around a costumed Goddess of Reason who "impersonated Liberty". A flame burned on the altar which was symbolic of truth. To avoid statuary and idolatry, the Goddess figures were portrayed by living women, and in Paris the role was played by Momoro's own wife Sophie, who is said to have dressed "provocatively" and, according to Thomas Carlyle, "made one of the best Goddesses of Reason; though her teeth were a little defective."
It was a really good idea and worth trying again