Posted on 05/07/2015 9:23:36 AM PDT by marshmallow
Statue in a Brittany town square deemed to violate the separation of Church and state
A French court has ordered the removal of a statue of St John Paul II which it said violated the separation of Church and state.
Authorities have been given six months to remove a 29ft (8.7m) statue from the town square in Ploërmel, Brittany.
The sculpture, by Russo-Georgian Zurab Tsereteli, shows the late pope praying underneath an arch topped by a cross. It was intended as a gesture of friendship from Russia to other countries with a Christian heritage.
A court at Rennes said the problem was the location of the statue in the town square.
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The irony and symbolism couldn't be any greater.
The former militantly atheist Russia presents a statue of a Catholic saint to a formerly Catholic France, which proceeds to have a problem with it.
Welcome to the new Europe where the actors' roles are reversed.
Remove the statue.
In it’s place create a sculpture of a hole in the ground, with the devil crawling up out of it.
Russia sends a statue of a Polish Pope as a gift.
Now I’ve seen everything.
Great idea. Europe is done. I’m sure statues of the prophet MeatHead will soon be everywhere.
PFL
The purveyor of error should not be memorialized. It seems though that they ought to be consistent, at least, and change all the names of the towns/cities that start with St.
I’ll take it. It would be just the thing for our new church property.
Let me guess there is a sizable population of people who practice the religion of “peace” are offended by this Catholic symbol and hero.
Churches in France will the next to be removed
You certainly have my prayers, Dutchboy8.
Thank you, you are always very kind. And, you have mine, as well. Grace to you.
Separation of church and state? What their leftists are even borrowing that phrase from our leftists? Does France now invoke our Constitution?
I wonder whether they were offended by his kissing the Koran.
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