Posted on 10/06/2022 6:11:42 PM PDT by marshmallow
CNA Newsroom, Sep 29, 2022 / 01:30 am After a French court confirmed the removal of a statue of St. Michael from a seaside town, supporters have vowed to continue their fight to keep it standing.
On Friday, Sep. 16, the Court of Appeal in Nantes ruled in favor of removing a statue of St. Michael in the town of Les Sables-d’Olonne in the Vendée.
The court decision was made against the wishes of more than 90% of participants in a consultation held by the town’s mayor, Yannick Moreau, last March.
On Sept. 29, the feast day of the archangel, one supporter posted an image of the statue on social media, writing “A thought for the statue of Saint-Michel in Les Sables D’Olonne in Vendée which, according to the court of Nantes, must be removed in the name of ‘secularism’ while the people of Sablais in a popular referendum have voted to maintain.”
According to a report in Le Figaro, the municipality will now take the legal fight to the Conseil d'État. The Council of State is the supreme court for administrative justice in France.
The statue was installed in 2018 opposite the church of St. Michael. It was initially at a school of the same name from 1935 until 2017.
In 2021, a complaint was filed by the “Libre Pensée de Vendée,” a group that advocates secularism and “free thought” and initially opposed the statue’s installation.
The concept of secularism — laïcité — has been a fixture of French law since 1905. At that time, the Third Republic officially established state secularism, causing a subsequent wave of anti-Catholicism, which included the end of government funding for religious schools, mandatory civil marriage, and the removal of chaplains from the army.
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I imagine the secularist dickweeds want a statue of Lucifer installed there instead.
Sad.
Sad.
The tyrannical pipsqueaks behind this should be tarred and feathered in the town square, while everyone points and laughs uproariously.
Well good luck on the fight...we usually lose them here...
Maybe they could privatize the ground it sits on?
Exodus 20:4
You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Keep reading. The rest of the command is in regards to bowing down and worshipping it. Also the reason given was because God had no form. With the incarnation he had form. Plus look at the decorations in the temple, the Ark of the Covei and the bronze serpent. Was God contradicting himself? Or is this because the statue is Catholic?
Of course, the group that sued to remove the statue calls itself “free thinkers”.
This is nuts.
The Hebrew word translated “graven image” means literally “an idol.”
BATTLE!
lucifer is there... under michaels spear
the real point is that a Christian society shouldn’t be expected to look exactly like a non-christian one, because Christians are not obligated to simulate an atheist society. One shouldn’t be surprised to see an aesthetic expression of Christianity in any society which doesn’t expressly forbid it.
It is a beautiful statue. Part of the mission is to destroy beauty because it points us to God.
Thank you! Nice analysis!
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