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I am French and I don't think France is secular. * For example, why do most French people want to have a Catholic mass celebrated on the death of a loved one?
by JPLeRouzic 4y ago
I am French and I don't think France is secular.
* For example, why do most French people want to have a Catholic mass celebrated on the death of a loved one?
* Most towns have a double set of schools, cultural, sports establishments. One "laique" the other religious.
* And anyway a large part (8-10%) of the French population today is Muslim.
* French "laicité" (secularism) has its organisation and events modeled after the Catholic religion. For example the "fête de la laicité":
https://www.ufal.org/%C3%A9v%C3%A8nement/fete-de-la-laicite-a-paris-cuvee-2022/ https://www.ufal.org/%C3%A9v%C3%A8nement/fete-de-la-laicite-...
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoThe extent of my knowledge of religion in France begins and ends with this posted article. It doesn't say that France is totally secular, only that public displays are treated very differently. I should be free to not have religion jammed down my throat when I am out in public. I shouldn't have to watch people pray. That was my takeaway at least.
- JPLeRouzic 4y ago> only that public displays are treated very differently. Yes current politicians want that, yet the French people (as usual) mostly do not care. They have other business to pursue. There is currently a huge gap between politicians and people in France, it reminds me of the gap there were between Parisian French revolutionaries and the backward provincials (like my ancestors in Brittany) during the French revolution. Tens of thousands people died because of this cultural schism. Let's it not happen again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chouannerie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chouannerie