{"id":28,"date":"2008-01-17T08:33:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/la-laicite-28.htm"},"modified":"2008-01-17T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:33:04","slug":"la-laicite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/la-laicite-28.htm","title":{"rendered":"La La\u00efcit\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After the Revolution France developed a militant secularism, <\/font>la la\u00efcit\u00e9, which insisted that the state was lay, that is clerics and religion had no role in any state activity or public life. In part this was a reaction to integrisme, the strain of Catholic thought that insisted that the state must be Catholic and that clerics should direct the affairs of state, directly or indirectly.<\/o:p><\/span>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span>The Catholic, anti-Semitic right disgraced itself both in the Dreyfus affair and, to some extent, under the Vichy<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> regime. La la\u00efcit\u00e9 was seen as a wayof guarding human rights.<\/o:p><\/span>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span>President Sarkozy of France<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, however, according to Le Monde<\/a>, is revising the concept of \u00a0<\/span>la la\u00efcit\u00e9. \u00a0<\/span>In Rome<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> he said<\/o:p><\/span>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrance<\/st1:country-region> has need of Catholics,\u201d he affirmed, after having insisted on \u201cthe essentially Christian roots of France<\/st1:country-region>\u201d and criticized a laicity that had tried \u201cto cut off France<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> from its Christian roots.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When he was in Saudi Arabia<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>, Sarkozy also spoke of\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

the equal importance that he accorded to the believers of different religions, to freemasons, and to atheists.<\/span>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Freemasons and others are not happy with Sarkozy. The grand master of the Freemasons in France<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> said:<\/span>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

M. Sarkozy puts at the heart of society a religious dimension which we do not share. These remarks risk radicalizing positions and reviving a form of anticlericalism.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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