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| Neither secular nor theocratic? Try `laicite' |
| 2005-09-10 |
| Posted by:DanNY |
| #8 JFM: The Catholic Church in France, like in Mexico and South America, couldn't resist playing politics and enriching itself at the public trough. It should come as no surprise when those people had had enough and decided to dispense with Papal mummery. Much of the fault lies not with the Church proper, but mostly with the Jesuit order, which just made it a habit to embrace the most loathsome of secular dictatorship in the hope of some pragmatic advantage. In fact, how the Catholic Church around the world is treated today is based on the behavior of the various religious orders as long as 500 years ago. You can look at the various orders and their "territories", and see an exact correlation with how people who live there regard the Church today. Jesuit, Dominican, Franciscan, and the other major orders, each left their fingerprints on different societies. And as you sew, so shall you reap. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-10 11:18 |
| #7 Sorry for the bad link, it changed from last night when I posted it. New Link here. |
| Posted by: DanNY 2005-09-10 07:29 |
| #6 The Australian media keeps telling me next month is Breast Awareness Month, but doesn't explain why I can't be aware of breasts for the rest of the year. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-09-10 04:24 |
| #5 Laicite is a French word. While similar don't mix it with secularity. In fact it is more militant atheism who takes its time (its proponents were notorious atheists) instead of being in ahurry like in Soviet Union. On pretext of laicite were many catholic congragations expelled, most catholic schools closed (and made illegal for cities to fund them), hospitals cleansed of their nuns acting as nurses, carreers of catholic officers were slowed (the price was paid in blood during WWI) and funding was cut off from church (who was also deprived from most of its possesions. It took its time but the goal was reached: France is today a largely atheistic country (at least between the French proper) and it really strikes when you see people who still go to church: at least 80% of white hair ie in twenty years christianism will have disappeared from France. The goal all along of laicite. That has been the goal all along. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-09-10 04:07 |
| #4 Isn't that a French school or something? :) |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-09-10 02:14 |
| #3 I googled it..Frog terminology for secular gubmint, but protects bla bla. /got milk...no. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-09-10 01:28 |
| #2 .com's all over this til he found it wasn't "lactate" :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-10 01:20 |
| #1 Huh? Link-check, plz... |
| Posted by: .com 2005-09-10 01:17 |