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Laïcité
Jul 2, 2008 21:20:50 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Jul 2, 2008 21:20:50 GMT 10
We read ( Wikipedia, Laïcité, excerpt): The conception of laïcité is based on the respect of freedom of thought and of freedom of religion. Thus, the absence of a state religion and the subsequent separation of the state and Church is considered a prerequisite of such freedom of thought. Laïcité is thus distinct from anti-clericalism, which actively opposes the influence of religion and of the clergy. Laïcité relies on the division between private life, to which its adherents believe religion belongs, and the public sphere, in which each individual, its adherents believe, should appear devoid of ethnic, religious or others particularities, and as a simple citizen equal to all others citizens. According to this conception, the government must refrain from taking positions on religious doctrine and only consider religious subjects from their practical consequences on inhabitants' lives.
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Post by jmd on Jul 7, 2008 0:18:42 GMT 10
Sounds a lot like essential principles at work in Freemasonry to me! Or at least that is also what I sense as a key characteristic in Freemasonry.
No wonder numerous GLs have adopted principles of laïcity.
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Laïcité
Jul 7, 2008 12:56:53 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Jul 7, 2008 12:56:53 GMT 10
I agree. Desaguliers' protégé, James Anderson's abolition of the formerly Christian requirement of the Craft was arguably a first step toward laïcity.
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Laïcité
Jul 11, 2008 22:59:51 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Jul 11, 2008 22:59:51 GMT 10
by Andrew Prescott (Excerpt) In a pamphlet published in support of the Grand Orient of France, Bradlaugh eloquently expressed his vision of What Freemasonry Is, What It Has Been, and What It Ought To Be: ‘True Freemasonry should be of no religion. under the temple roof the strife of creeds should be hushed, work should be the only worship: work for the redemption of long-suffering mankind’.
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Laïcité
Jul 12, 2008 14:37:51 GMT 10
Post by jmd on Jul 12, 2008 14:37:51 GMT 10
Excellent paper!
Thankyou.
It really makes me wonder what it is I can do to actually work at better transforming my own constitution away from the call of dogmatism and sexism that appears to have developed especially since WWI, and back towards the road of Free-Thinking Freemasonry!
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Laïcité
Mar 10, 2014 8:51:33 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Mar 10, 2014 8:51:33 GMT 10
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Laïcité
Mar 10, 2014 8:55:24 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Mar 10, 2014 8:55:24 GMT 10
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