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first president to visit the second Masonic obedience in France, the Head of state defended the law on secularism on Monday “which protects and recognizes freedom of conscience” as that of “believing or not believing”.
It is with a little ahead that Emmanuel Macron celebrated this Monday the 120th anniversary of the law on the separation of churches and the State. A few months before the symbolic date, on December 9, the Head of State went to the Grand Lodge of France, where he spoke with his grand master, Thierry Zaveroni. A first for the second Masonic obedience in France, who had never received the visit of a President of the Republic.
From the Pierre Brossolette temple in Paris, Emmanuel Macron took the opportunity to give a speech on the “secularism”in order to “Recall simple truths that too long the public debate erases”. “The law of 1905 is not an edict of tolerance, it is a law of freedom which recognizes and protects freedom of conscience, of worship (…) but also to believe and not to believe”he said. A text from “Fundamental rights” Who completes and completes the Declaration of Human Rights, he insisted. “It is a space where everyone knows the other like their brother in the Republic.”
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The Head of State warned against those who want “Treat it or divert it”. “Let us be careful that those who would like to make an identity reading on the pretext of secularizing society for the sole purpose of tackling religions or beliefs, in particular in the name of their alleged incompatibility with the values of the Republic”he pinned. In the same way as those who “Hear making it an instrument of repentance against the Republic”.
“Fraternity ambassadors”
At the dawn of this anniversary, Emmanuel Macron asked the brothers of the Grand Lodge, as he has already done with cult officials, to be “Fraternity ambassadors”. “This is how we will collectively demonstrate that the law of 1905 is not a law of exclusion, but of meeting”he explained. “I ask you to go everywhere constantly and without tiring that the only word that agrees with secularism is the word of freedom.” All the more by “Time that we live”he justified, where social networks and its algorithms “Think about us” et “Divert our minds”.
In the middle of a parliamentary debate on the end of life, Emmanuel Macron also denounced those who accuse Freemasonry of “Wanting to weigh” On discussions. “Freemasonry has always been the target of conspirators and obscurantists who attribute an influence to it thus putting it in the spotlight”he swept. “That the Freemasons seize this fundamental debate is a good thing.”
In his eyes, the debate on this constantly repelled campaign promise cannot be reduced to the “Question of whether we are for or against life”. “I am afraid that sometimes in our debates, things rush and forget the thickness and the great difficulty, sometimes also, to simply think of the slightest evil”warned the head of state.
