#CeJourLà en 1905 : La République assure la liberté de conscience. Elle garantit le libre exercice des cultes sous les seules restrictions édictées ci-après dans l'intérêt de l'ordre public.

Loi complète sur #Commons :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loi_de_s%C3%A9paration_des_%C3%A9glises_et_de_l%E2%80%99%C3%89tat_9_d%C3%A9cembre_1905_-_Archives_nationales_(France).pdf

#inthisday #OTD #France #religion #laïcité #20esiecle #histoire #archives

File:Loi de séparation des églises et de l’État 9 décembre 1905 - Archives nationales (France).pdf - Wikimedia Commons

Headline: Florida governor declares Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization

Me: OK...now do the same for Christian groups.

https://apnews.com/article/florida-desantis-muslim-group-terrorist-label-7113c982c43fed198cef9eaf85b23679

#Florida
#Religion
#Terrorism

Florida governor labels major Muslim rights group a foreign terrorist organization

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month. The directive against the Council on American-Islamic Relations comes in an executive order DeSantis posted on the social media site X Monday. It also gives the same label to the Muslim Brotherhood. Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government. The order instructs Florida agencies to prevent the two groups and those who have provided them material support from receiving contracts, employment and funds from a state executive or cabinet agency.

AP News
I’m on series two of Netflix’s “Victoria”, a dramatization of the life of England’s Queen Victoria & the glories & trials of the Victorian age. I’m hooked, even through the series is as much soap as it is biopic. Victoria was so interesting, ascending to the crown at 18, marrying for love, bearing 9 children & overseeing the empire. I’ve always thought monarchy to be odd, existing with little or no rational justification in any case ever. For much of history ‘might made right’ so those with the biggest armies & best strategies ruled. Then their sons and daughters ruled. I confess I am fascinated by the history of royalty. My wife laughs, not appreciating the irony of my fascination. I hope to be alive to see the implosion of the Mountbatten-Windsors. I am also not traditionally religious (Pythagorean by faith), but I am fascinated by this new American Pope - so I’m occasionally reading Catholic Digest. I consider both #monarchy & #religion to be curious oddities of the human condition. Thus, my fascination.

"But most Christian leaders were silent or, worse, complicit in the 1930s and 40s. Far too many understood the Nazi regime to be bringing God back into public life."

#authoritarianism #fascism #religion #Hitler #Nazis
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"Peace through strength is the gospel of every authoritarian regime. ...

American Christians often like to recall Dietrich Bonhoeffer or Karl Barth as fellow Christians who stood up to the violence of authoritarianism when Hilter was on the rise in Germany."

~ William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

#authoritarianism #fascism #religion #Hitler #Nazis
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https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/advent-peace-when-there-is-no-peace

Advent Peace When There Is No Peace

Prophetic nonviolence disturbs the false peace of authoritarian regimes

Our Moral Moment w/ Bishop William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove