text:  as setting up a god of reason as opposed to this horrible catholic god which is of course why the french revolutionaries talked about strangling the last king with the guts of the last priest the idea being of course that the monarchy and the catholic church were in cahoots together and that the only way to overthrow tyranny would be to overthrow the church itself that is a complete misread of history and is pretty obviously a misread of history given the fact that the french revolution ended up becoming one of the great tyrannies of history