The First Stage of the Terror

The cases of colo in leon and carrier in nant represent the most extreme edge of the first stage of the terror. This is also the moment in the revolution when violent dechristianization really takes over. Robespierre had no truck at all with the atheists or their plan to destroy the h not only did he consider organized religion essential to civic life, but robespierre believed that de christianization was actually a major part of that foreign plot.