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Jacques Julliard is a columnist for the weekly
Marianne.
Religion in its relations with politics: this is a question that in the West, and in France in particular, we had, after heated confrontations, believed to be outdated and which resurfaces today with the gradual establishment of Islam in the land of yesteryear. Christian.
To this question, which has once again become fundamental and even obsessive, the intellectuals who claim to be Marxism, or even the "French Theory", as the Americans say, the parties and in particular the parties of the left, but also the Churches, and especially the Catholic Church, respond with a truly astounding silence.
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Of the need for a civil religion
Not that the question is new.
The majority of eighteenth-century philosophers believe in the need for a popular religion, either in a purely utilitarian or even cynical manner in the manner of Voltaire
("I want my attorney, my tailor, my servants to believe in God; and I imagine that I will be robbed of it less! ”),
in other words
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