WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Under Robespierre, the Convention pursued a policy of de-Christianization because its members believed that. religion supported the monarchy. religion encouraged superstition, rather than the use of reason. other religions should be represented in France.

Detailed explanation-2: -Under Robespierre, the Convention pursued a policy of de-Christianization because its members believed that. the sans-culottes and other members of the Paris Commune.

Detailed explanation-3: -They formed a coalition and took up arms against France. the Reign of Terror. Why did the members of the National Convention pursue a policy of de-Christianization? They believed that religion encouraged superstition, instead of reason.

Detailed explanation-4: -Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17, 000 enemies of the Revolution.

Detailed explanation-5: -The programme of dechristianization waged against Catholicism, and eventually against all forms of Christianity, included: destruction of statues, plates and other iconography from places of worship. destruction of crosses, bells and other external signs of worship.