@Carnelian posted:I'm with you on this Saint. I really think the French state projecting Charlie Hebdo cartoons onto the sides of public buildings is not the way to go. Those cartoons are provocative and deliberately offensive. "je ne suis Charlie". One cartoon they projected onto a public building showed the Bible, Tora and Quran as three rolls of toilet paper, and showed such disrespect to people of faith. I know that France has traditionally prided itself on its secularism but there's secularism then there's just shoving your disdain for religion into people's faces.
I am not religious myself and I do think every person has the right to critique religions but with rights come responsibilities. I don't think it's a state's role to ram secularism down everyone's throat and such state-sponsored vilification of religions is reminiscent of the 3rd Riech.
Dunno if it's "state sponsored" more like state tolerated or state protected/justified in the name of "freedom of speech".
In the UK it would probably come under outraging public decency. There is freedom and there is provoking a response which is what Charlie Ebdo are saying they do. Provoke to reveal intolerance to France's freedom.
That's a very dangerous game and Macron has put everyone in France at risk when he chose to stand by them