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== History ==

== History ==

The atheist ''political'' movement originated during the [[French Revolution]], as [[Jacques Hébert]] and the [[Hébertists]] seeking to create a national atheist religion, the [[Cult of Reason]] in opposition to [[Robespierre]]'s theistic [[Cult of the Supreme Being]].

The atheist ''political'' movement originated during the [[French Revolution]], as [[Jacques Hébert]] and the [[Hébertists]] seeking to create a national atheist religion, the [[Cult of Reason]] in opposition to [[Robespierre]]'s theistic (though violently [[deism|deistic]] and anti-Christian) [[Cult of the Supreme Being]].

Atheists' attempts to destroy faith were magnified in the 19th century, as philosophers such as [[Comte]] and [[Marx]] attempted to describe religion's downfall as inevitable, while [[Darwin]] and [[Freud]] attempted to twist science to support [[atheism]] in a [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] fashion. (Note that the vast majority of scientists remained Christian throughout the 18th-20th centuries.)

Atheists' attempts to destroy faith were magnified in the 19th century, as philosophers such as [[Comte]] and [[Marx]] attempted to describe religion's downfall as inevitable, while [[Darwin]] and [[Freud]] attempted to twist science to support [[atheism]] in a [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] fashion. (Note that the vast majority of scientists remained Christian throughout the 18th-20th centuries.)