Having seen the state of churches in France compared to that in other countries where they simply get sold off by the Church as real estate for money and because it can't fund their maintenance, this piece of opinion doesn't seem to be much based on reality.
The most obvious point is equating vandalism during the Revolution (a civil war during which the Church sided against the people, which can maybe explain some vindication against it) with bad upkeep by the current government, 200 years later.
fmajid
3 hours ago
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Historians have shown, by studying baptismal records, that secularization started about a century before the Revolution. Remember also the Church collected the dîme (tithe), a 10% tax that Germany still does (albeit at a lower rate). Taxmen are never popular.
bestouff
3 hours ago
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The French state is not governed by any religion. We want to keep it that way, thank you.
boxed
4 hours ago
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> In contrast, those caught up in the supposed progress of reason during the Revolution and accompanying Enlightenment couldn’t do better than knocking off the heads of statues built by their ancestors.
Or you know.. the science that made that webpage's existence possible.
Meanwhile catholicism has brought as "supposed progress" like industrialized pedophilia.
Or maybe there's good things in both rational thought and faith... You just have to be pretty aggressive in fighting the bad sides.
(news.ycombinator.com)
6 points
by: Michelangelo11
5 hours ago
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seszett
4 hours ago
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Having seen the state of churches in France compared to that in other countries where they simply get sold off by the Church as real estate for money and because it can't fund their maintenance, this piece of opinion doesn't seem to be much based on reality.
The most obvious point is equating vandalism during the Revolution (a civil war during which the Church sided against the people, which can maybe explain some vindication against it) with bad upkeep by the current government, 200 years later.
fmajid
3 hours ago
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Historians have shown, by studying baptismal records, that secularization started about a century before the Revolution. Remember also the Church collected the dîme (tithe), a 10% tax that Germany still does (albeit at a lower rate). Taxmen are never popular.
bestouff
3 hours ago
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The French state is not governed by any religion. We want to keep it that way, thank you.
boxed
4 hours ago
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> In contrast, those caught up in the supposed progress of reason during the Revolution and accompanying Enlightenment couldn’t do better than knocking off the heads of statues built by their ancestors.
Or you know.. the science that made that webpage's existence possible.
Meanwhile catholicism has brought as "supposed progress" like industrialized pedophilia.
Or maybe there's good things in both rational thought and faith... You just have to be pretty aggressive in fighting the bad sides.