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Antichrist and Supreme Being

Inauguration

Friday October 1st at 8 pm at the Ideeënhuis, Vredestraat 20, 9500 Geraardsbergen

Exhibition

From October 2nd till 11th Tuesday to Sunday: 2-6pm, Monday: 10am-1pm

Free entrance

Organizator

Ideeënhuis Geraardsbergen

Fall 2010



Antichrist and Supreme Being

Inauguration: Friday October 1st 8pm

Exhibition: October 2nd-11th
tue-sun 2-6pm mon 10am-1pm

Venue: Ideeënhuis
Vredestraat 20
9500 Geraardsbergen



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The Supreme Being

"The eternally happy day which the French people consecrates to the Supreme Being has finally arrived. Never has the world he created offered him a sight so worthy of his eyes. He has seen tyranny, crime, and deception reign on earth. At this moment, he sees an entire nation, at war with all the oppressors of the human race, suspend its heroic efforts in order to raise its thoughts and vows to the Great Being who gave it the mission to undertake these efforts and the strength to execute them.

Did not his immortal hand, by engraving in the hearts of men the code of justice and equality, write there the death sentence of tyrants? Did not his voice, at the very beginning of time, decree the republic, making liberty, good faith, and justice the order of the day for all centuries and for all peoples?

He did not create kings to devour the human species. Neither did he create priests to harness us like brute beasts to the carriages of kings, and to give the world the example of baseness, pride, perfidy, avarice, debauchery, and falsehood to the world. But he created the universe to celebrate his power; he created men to help and to love one another, and to attain happiness through the path of virtue.

The Author of Nature linked all mortals together in an immense chain of love and happiness. Perish the tyrants who have dared to break it!

Frenchmen, Republicans, it is up to you to cleanse the earth they have sullied and to restore the justice they have banished from it. Liberty and virtue issued together from the breast of the Supreme Being. One cannot reside among men without the other.

Generous people, do you want to triumph over all your enemies? Practice justice and render to the Supreme Being the only form of worship worthy of him. People, let us surrender ourselves today, under his auspices, to the just ecstasy of pure joy. Tomorrow we shall again combat vices and tyrants; we shall give the world an example of republican virtues: and that shall honor the Supreme Being more."

Robespierre

(Keynote speech at the 'Festival of the Supreme Being' on June 8th 1794)