Posted on 04/10/2018 9:26:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron that he wanted to repair church-state ties caused uproar Tuesday, sparking charges he was tampering with France’s longstanding secular tradition.
The Church and the state were for centuries virtually indistinguishable in France, but the 1789 Revolution marked the first step by republicans to exclude religion from government affairs, codified in a 1905 law separating the two. But tensions have persisted, with conservative politicians often accusing officials of denying France’s cultural heritage — as seen in efforts to install nativity scenes at town halls during Christmas.
Macron, who prides himself on tackling difficult issues head-on, told a meeting of bishops on Monday that he hoped to repair relations with the Church through a “dialogue of truth”.
“We intuitively share the feeling that the bond between the Church and the state has been damaged, and that both you and I need to repair it,” Macron said. […]
The unusual foray by a French leader onto religious territory sparked outrage among critics, not least since they come at a time of heightened tensions with France’s Muslim population after a series of deadly jihadist attacks in the country. “Macron in full-on metaphysical delirium. Outrageous. One expects a president; one gets a little priest,” Jean-Luc Melenchon, head of the left-wing France Unbowed party, said on Twitter. “Secularism is the jewel in our crown. That is what a president of the republic should be defending,” newly installed Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure said in a tweet. …
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I would say that the Commune would fall under “everything following” the disastrous revolution. Although there were two communes, one during the revolution (in 1792) and one after Napoleon III’s fall (1871); both were failures.
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The unusual foray by a French leader onto religious territory sparked outrage among critics, not least since they come at a time of heightened tensions with France’s Muslim population after a series of deadly jihadist attacks in the country.
The critics aren't defending secularism, they are defending jihad. Thanks Olog-hai.
France lost 1.7 million men in WWI - more than we’ve lost in all of our wars combined since the United States was founded. Without their military aid we would still be British citizens.
Good. Macron isn’t such a bad egg.
FR is one of those old-school places where the URLs have to be old school too. Parentheses characters in the URL have to become percent codes.
http://quake.wikia.com/wiki/Makron_%28Q4%29
The Xbox is sucking my nephew’s brain away, BTW.
He hasn’t relented on strengthening the EU, which means he is not for his Fifth Republic being independent.
The French Revolution was a product of “the Enlightenment”, the U.S. was not.
Progressives and Marxists have done a massive job of obscuring that fact, and the difference over the years.
Here’s a paper that provides some enlightenment on the subject:
Like Iran...?
Yup.
But still.
The Strogg have France.
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