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Debray-Leschi-Colosimo: "Faced with barbarism, where is the Republic?"

2021-06-21T22:29:43.296Z


EXTRACTS - “République ou barbarie” (Le Cerf) brings together three of the most brilliant observers: the writer Régis Debray, the senior civil servant specializing in cults Didier Leschi, the historian and theologian Jean-François Colosimo. In this essay, which presents itself as a "call ...


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Régis Debray, secularism

Since we all have to repeat “secularism” three times by jumping in our chair, the question asked to the kids by a member of the high age takes again all its greenness:

“Gentlemen, you agree with the word. Do you agree with the thing? "

The word, in fact, can mean everything and its opposite. In France, the mantra is a battleground. It no longer separates the two France, as in the past, but a strict sense and a broad sense. Some do without qualifying, sugar-free diet; the others water down, “open and inclusive”. The two mobilities are at loggerheads, so to speak, and rain the names of birds on the airwaves and screens. Short coupons. Secularism is a requirement. About what? From borders.

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A border is not a wall.

It is a threshold.

To distinguish an inside from an outside.

Between the State and the Churches, this point has been established since 1905 - even if the substantive “secularism”, a late neologism (1883) introduced by Ferdinand Buisson in his

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