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Marc Pernot   For many years, I had no particular opinion about homosexuality. For me, it was a fact, just as there are blonds and brown-haired people. But not entirely, however. I remained a bachelor for a long time, and ...

by Louis Pernot   translation Louise Thunin   Liberty : we like this word. We defend it. We want to make a principle of it. We are free in our faith, free from traditional forms of belief, from dogma, from church ...

Jean-Marie de Bourqueney   This name was given by many to the collective movement and general opinion that, in reaction to barbarity, (re)discovered the fundamental values of our society, the first of which is liberty. Some called it humanism. Indeed, ...

Sylvie Queval   Translation Louise Thunin   To think and to believe are two verbs that we often consider as opposites. To think supposes that we use our reason, our intellect. A thinker – Rodin’s sculpture, Le penseur, is the ...

James Woody   Translation Louise Thunin   It is becoming possible to speak about religion, about religious practice, without being suspected of trying to convert people. Yes, religion exists. The men and women of the twenty-first century have not lost ...

Michel Barlow Translation Louise Thunin His new mustache worried him. And this accessory of seduction often led him to take on the joyful and provocative role of class needler. After listening to the philosophy teacher (me) expound on The Two ...

Gilles Castelnau Translation Louise Thunin   The god Baal whom the prophet Elijah opposes and whose cult was so popular in Israel that he even had his statue in the Temple in Jerusalem (II Kings 23) had good reason to ...

Yes, We Are All Charlie.  Translation Louise Thunin Yes, we are all Charlie. More than ever before we must claim the right to think, the right to believe or not to believe, to exercise our critical minds. As people who ...

Marie-Noële Duchêne   Translation Louise Thunin   « All religions are false on the surface, which is dogma, and true in substance, which is God », wrote Victor Hugo (Philosophical Prose). Protestantism doesn’t actually speak of dogma, since it considers all its ...

Francine Carrillo Translation Louise Thunin Begin by depositing one’s day on a swatch of silence. Plunge into one’s depths, below the pain, beyond the words, into that placeless place, where the meeting has been announced. Desire nothing other than to ...