Posted on 12/03/2016 2:03:46 PM PST by Steelfish
French Town Told Park's Virgin Mary Statue Must Go
The Virgin Mary, Jesus and Joseph are widely represented in European public art.
A French town has been told it must take down its statue of the Virgin Mary to comply with a national ban on religious symbols in public spaces, the town's mayor said on Saturday.
A court has given the town of Publier, in eastern France, three months to remove the work. If it fails to do so, it will be fined 100 (£80; $105) a day. Mayor Gaston Lacroix said he will try to relocate the marble statue on private land.
The image of the mother of Jesus has been standing on the shores of Lake Geneva since 2011
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Let the local church buy it
What’s next?
That Christian eyesore, Chartres Cathedral?
then be aware you are turning your back on God, who do you fear the most..
Why?
The only Italian Enlightenment philosopher I can think of is Beccaria, who had a significant impact on the U.S. Constitution and the rights of criminal defendants.
According to Wiki, Beccaria lived in Milan.
Galileo lived in Florence, and he obviously had a huge impact on science and the Scientific Method.
However, Galileo died at least 50 years before the Enlightenment got started.
This has precisely zero to do with Muslims, I do appreciate that Americans think Europe is a continent of weenies cowering under their Muslim overlords but this is utterly unrelated to Muslims.
Like the US there has been a centuries-long argument about the place of religion in the state and like the US many people adhere to a secular republican ideal where religion is a private matter and should not intrude in the public sphere.
So the statue of the Virgin needs to be relocated from the public park to private land, it is not banned or replaced by a mosque it is just being moved from public land.
In exactly the same way that France enforces a ban on the Islamic head scarf in the public sphere, a ban I recall that was popular among many posters.
Religious indifferentism paves the way for muslim domination.
Continental Europe’s original world view was that “error has no right”. No one has a right to be wrong, especially in matters that have to do with true religion.
It will be the Catholics that save France and Europe, if that is even possible without Divine intervention. None of the false religions, including free masonry/atheism/manmade christian sects, are equipped to deal with the death religion that is sweeping the world.
Isn’t it odd the this comes about in France since Islam bands religious in images of people, especially those of infidels.
Why do I have the sneaky suspicion that a lot of European officials and even American officials have secretly converted to Islam because the bribe money is so good?
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