American revolution?

[Markwsmith2020]

Is the American revolution and the French revolution the same, both have the same colors, red white and blue, the same goals of freedom and liberty, both founded on and by the Masons?

 

[DennisTate]

Is the American revolution and the French revolution the same, both have the same colors, red white and blue, the same goals of freedom and liberty, both founded on and by the Masons?

I personally am a Canadian who feels that we owe Americans an apology for how ignorant our ancestors were at the time of their War of Independence....... because if we had know why America was revolting against England..... a high percentage of our ancestors would have tended to agree with their reasoning.

If my English ancestors had been closer to God we would have gotten along much better with the French as well.


Do we Canadians owe America an apology for 1750 - 1783?

 

[Yarddog]

Is the American revolution and the French revolution the same, both have the same colors, red white and blue, the same goals of freedom and liberty, both founded on and by the Masons?

The American Revolution was not founded on and by the Free Masons. Though some members of the Founding Fathers were Masons, many weren't. Only one took part in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. (Franklin) Of the men considered to be FF's, only 9 were Masons.

 

[elliott95]

Is the American revolution and the French revolution the same, both have the same colors, red white and blue, the same goals of freedom and liberty, both founded on and by the Masons?

French revolution was for liberty, equality, fraternity.
The American revolution was for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
A couple of hundred years later or so that had JFK orating to "not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".

The American revolution was about empowering the individual; the French about empowering the collective.

 

[redleghunter]

Is the American revolution and the French revolution the same, both have the same colors, red white and blue, the same goals of freedom and liberty, both founded on and by the Masons?

No the two revolutions differ immensely.

The American revolution was not due to Enlightenment as was the French revolution.

Influences on the American Revolution came from English Reformation and American First Great Awakening.

 

[faroukfarouk]

French revolution was for liberty, equality, fraternity.
The American revolution was for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
A couple of hundred years later or so that had JFK orating to "not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".

The American revolution was about empowering the individual; the French about empowering the collective.

French republicanism does actually have a strong individualist tradition.

The issue really is secularism.

The French, Revolutionary secularist challenge was supposedly to throw off the shackles of anything religious and find so called purity and harmony in society when God is put out of the picture in order to advance what was claimed as fraternity, and so forth.

The American Revolution did have some secularist overtones, but these were not a strong as at the French Revolution. Both before and after the American Revolution the idea of freedom under law / ordered liberty was strong.

The French Revolutionary version was more along the lines of angry insurrectionists trying to impose on everyone else what they regarded as the results of their supposed insights.