"A society without religion is like a ship without a compass."
Napoleon Bonaparte.
We were learnedly argued that Islam flourished because it met with nothing in front of him. Nature abhors a vacuum, the Mohammedan religion, encouraged by immigrant demography, merely fill a void left by the ebb of the Catholic religion of public space. We were told that it was a religion aggressively oppose a counterweight equal, another aggressive religion. Repeat the Crusades ... or at least the Reconquista, do not sin by optimism.
Well it's something made, the eyes are opened, the voices around the country. Before our very eyes, hundreds of French people, from all political and social circles, have openly opposed the Islamization of our country. The shares are not lacking: the refusal Quick halal , petitions against ritual slaughter and the construction of mosques cathedrals islamovigilantes posters, debate on the burqa. However this is not the name of the Pope or the Church that the French were united. Nor the name of Christianity the twenty-first century. Quite the contrary, many churches are in the eyes of religion Chimene Muslim, seeing it as an ally in their struggle against the societal liberalism, "the veil rather than the string"! This is not Christianity, which served as a vehicle for this move Chin national, but secularism.
As I already explained here, the 1905 law was not intended to drive both the religions of the public space to replace that of the Republic. Agnosticism is not Republican an absence of religion, but a religion without gods without recourse to the supernatural or wonderful. An ideology, like communism or liberalism. In 1905, it was therefore not a fight against religions that tore France but a struggle between religions. Christianity or religion republicanism cons of Human Rights (DDH). Fifteen centuries of difference, Europe reliving the same battle that allowed Christianity to supplant paganism. The chronology indicates a similar procedure: initially destructive rage of a handful of fanatics, followed by relative calm and tolerance promulgated by elites, and ending with the imposition of the new cavalier in religion public space at the expense of the former.
Caricature of the 1905 Act, or the opposition of two religions
The new religion, lacking a solid foundation and a significant popular support, however, must make concessions and engulf the ancient religion in order to facilitate its implementation. When Christianity triumphed over paganism, it has not wiped it. Paganism has been "digested", incorporated into the DNA of Catholicism in the same manner as bacteria became mitochondria of our cells. Catholicism has treated this way large parts of indigenous religions: quasi-polytheism (worship of saints), pilgrimages, worship of sources and telluric forces, creation of a female deity (Saint Mary), development of a pantheon of demonic fury like a gathering of fauna, etc.. Protestantism, more intransigent, more clearly rejected the paganism out of its sphere of influence, the leaving of their own. This, and the Christianization of the late country in Northern Europe explains the greater vitality of paganism in contemporary culture Protestant countries than in Catholic countries.
A similar phenomenon occurred when the religion of DDH has replaced Christianity. Born in the zone of influence of Western Christianity as a discharge is generated senescent by a tree, the religion of DDH is largely based on Christian values. She has evacuated all the supernatural aspects in conflict with scientific advances of the day to keep a vague ideology liberating New Testament. As animals and plants, religions and ideologies constantly evolving, so always be better suited to the contemporary world. When they can no longer cope with the challenges they face, they die sooner or later.
The strength of the religion of DDH was to tame the existing religions, leaving them in practice totally free ... private spheres. In other words, it was necessary to use the language of Rome, that ancient religio agreeing to become superstitio . Christianity, religion intensely personal and introspective, with a developed metaphysics, inherently possessed this ability to see God disappear in favor of Caesar. Indeed, the souls can be saved as well in the discretion and humility of the confessional of the church in the agora. If it was abandoning her empire on the collective destiny of the nation, former cult did not maintain at least a strong influence on the souls of individuals. It was therefore possible to remain Christian and republican French, the two identities each defining its area of influence, in a manner similar to the ancient Roman household gods worshiped her while sacrificing to the Emperor.
However, Islam, like Judaism's , is primarily a law and a orthopraxy, knowing no separation of church and state. A Muslim, even if he sincerely believes in Allah, is a bad Muslim if he does not Ramadan or not praying five times a day towards Mecca. Much Christianity may well cope and survive in the catacombs, as Islam decays when it is confined to the private sphere, like a tree deprived of light. That's why he tries at all costs to interfere in the slightest openings available to them, sinking roots wherever the soil is too loose. Whether through the menu of a canteen, sex segregation in swimming pools or places of prayer in a university, every concession to Islam is considered final and calls for further concessions . It was therefore inevitable that Islam and the religion of DDH enter into open conflict, each claiming supremacy of the public sphere.
Paradoxically, religion HRD seems better suited than the current Christianity to stand up to the Islamization of our country, just as Christianity was better suited than paganism to resist Islam. Indeed, all major Western countries and despite the fact that it hosts the largest Muslim community in Western Europe, it is France that poses the greatest obstacle to the Islamization of space public. It was France, which banned the veil in school (at the point of receiving threats of attacks from Al Qaeda). It was France that debate on the abolition of the burqa. It was France who offended because eight Quick restaurants serve only halal meat. Such cases, which cause little stir in other Western countries, irritate terribly religious conceptions of the French, deeply committed to secularism, ie public religion they adopted in place of Christianity .
We have a formidable ideological weapon. We need to know to use it wisely to defend our identity.
Well it's something made, the eyes are opened, the voices around the country. Before our very eyes, hundreds of French people, from all political and social circles, have openly opposed the Islamization of our country. The shares are not lacking: the refusal Quick halal , petitions against ritual slaughter and the construction of mosques cathedrals islamovigilantes posters, debate on the burqa. However this is not the name of the Pope or the Church that the French were united. Nor the name of Christianity the twenty-first century. Quite the contrary, many churches are in the eyes of religion Chimene Muslim, seeing it as an ally in their struggle against the societal liberalism, "the veil rather than the string"! This is not Christianity, which served as a vehicle for this move Chin national, but secularism.
As I already explained here, the 1905 law was not intended to drive both the religions of the public space to replace that of the Republic. Agnosticism is not Republican an absence of religion, but a religion without gods without recourse to the supernatural or wonderful. An ideology, like communism or liberalism. In 1905, it was therefore not a fight against religions that tore France but a struggle between religions. Christianity or religion republicanism cons of Human Rights (DDH). Fifteen centuries of difference, Europe reliving the same battle that allowed Christianity to supplant paganism. The chronology indicates a similar procedure: initially destructive rage of a handful of fanatics, followed by relative calm and tolerance promulgated by elites, and ending with the imposition of the new cavalier in religion public space at the expense of the former.
Caricature of the 1905 Act, or the opposition of two religions The new religion, lacking a solid foundation and a significant popular support, however, must make concessions and engulf the ancient religion in order to facilitate its implementation. When Christianity triumphed over paganism, it has not wiped it. Paganism has been "digested", incorporated into the DNA of Catholicism in the same manner as bacteria became mitochondria of our cells. Catholicism has treated this way large parts of indigenous religions: quasi-polytheism (worship of saints), pilgrimages, worship of sources and telluric forces, creation of a female deity (Saint Mary), development of a pantheon of demonic fury like a gathering of fauna, etc.. Protestantism, more intransigent, more clearly rejected the paganism out of its sphere of influence, the leaving of their own. This, and the Christianization of the late country in Northern Europe explains the greater vitality of paganism in contemporary culture Protestant countries than in Catholic countries.
A similar phenomenon occurred when the religion of DDH has replaced Christianity. Born in the zone of influence of Western Christianity as a discharge is generated senescent by a tree, the religion of DDH is largely based on Christian values. She has evacuated all the supernatural aspects in conflict with scientific advances of the day to keep a vague ideology liberating New Testament. As animals and plants, religions and ideologies constantly evolving, so always be better suited to the contemporary world. When they can no longer cope with the challenges they face, they die sooner or later.
The strength of the religion of DDH was to tame the existing religions, leaving them in practice totally free ... private spheres. In other words, it was necessary to use the language of Rome, that ancient religio agreeing to become superstitio . Christianity, religion intensely personal and introspective, with a developed metaphysics, inherently possessed this ability to see God disappear in favor of Caesar. Indeed, the souls can be saved as well in the discretion and humility of the confessional of the church in the agora. If it was abandoning her empire on the collective destiny of the nation, former cult did not maintain at least a strong influence on the souls of individuals. It was therefore possible to remain Christian and republican French, the two identities each defining its area of influence, in a manner similar to the ancient Roman household gods worshiped her while sacrificing to the Emperor.
However, Islam, like Judaism's , is primarily a law and a orthopraxy, knowing no separation of church and state. A Muslim, even if he sincerely believes in Allah, is a bad Muslim if he does not Ramadan or not praying five times a day towards Mecca. Much Christianity may well cope and survive in the catacombs, as Islam decays when it is confined to the private sphere, like a tree deprived of light. That's why he tries at all costs to interfere in the slightest openings available to them, sinking roots wherever the soil is too loose. Whether through the menu of a canteen, sex segregation in swimming pools or places of prayer in a university, every concession to Islam is considered final and calls for further concessions . It was therefore inevitable that Islam and the religion of DDH enter into open conflict, each claiming supremacy of the public sphere.
Paradoxically, religion HRD seems better suited than the current Christianity to stand up to the Islamization of our country, just as Christianity was better suited than paganism to resist Islam. Indeed, all major Western countries and despite the fact that it hosts the largest Muslim community in Western Europe, it is France that poses the greatest obstacle to the Islamization of space public. It was France, which banned the veil in school (at the point of receiving threats of attacks from Al Qaeda). It was France that debate on the abolition of the burqa. It was France who offended because eight Quick restaurants serve only halal meat. Such cases, which cause little stir in other Western countries, irritate terribly religious conceptions of the French, deeply committed to secularism, ie public religion they adopted in place of Christianity .
We have a formidable ideological weapon. We need to know to use it wisely to defend our identity.
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