ROOKE: Let Them Eat Dick-Shaped Cake

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Welcome back to Good Life, a newsletter about navigating our modern culture and staying sane in the process. This week, we discuss the continued fall of France. 

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The French Revolution occupies a sacred place in the contemporary narrative as the dawn of liberty and human rights. The storming of the Bastille, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the overthrow of the Catholic Church and the French aristocratic regime were the necessary ruptures that birthed the modern world. 

It was a good thing, actually, to murder the ruling class, defile churches, and kill tens of thousands of clergy and other innocents. The dechristianization campaign, aimed to replace Catholicism (the soul of France for over a millennium) with civic cults, was simply France’s big glow-up.

I wonder if the revolutionaries could have seen what France would become, how many would have stopped the Reign of Terror from ever happening, throwing their own necks into the guillotine. 

What happened in 1793 is happening again in 2026, just with a new coat of paint and a different slogan.

During the revolution, Église Saint-Laurent, an ancient parish church with roots dating to the 6th century, was one of many Catholic churches violently seized and replaced by the Cult of Reason, which placed so-called liberty and state worship at the forefront of........

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