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Erasing Christianity in France
Charlotte Allen, First Things
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Blame laïcité, the militant secularism that has been official French policy since the revolution and tries to confine religious expression strictly to private life. The wearing of a crucifix in state schools is prohibited. In the “eldest daughter of the Church,” this amounts to the Stalinist practice of airbrushing out of photos of the Great Leader any subordinates who had fallen out of favor.