The President of the Republic details in The Express the many “continuities” that he discovers between “God and science”.
This is one of the subjects on which the mystery remains. What is Emmanuel Macron’s real relationship to the spiritual? Raised in a Jesuit establishment in Picardy – at his request – before then multiplying the grandes écoles and diplomas in the capital, is the President of the Republic a rational Cartesian, or a believer who does violence to himself? Does he think it is necessary “to fix“The link between Church and State which”damaged“, Or does he consider that the questions of morals – religious – are not”not (s) we deal“?
To answer all these questions, The Express collected a text from the Head of State, published this Tuesday, the day of his forty-fourth birthday. In the weekly, the tenant of the Élysée begins with a praise of science including, “never, undoubtedly, humanity“Will have”needed as muchThan today. Both to face the pandemic, of course, but also to face ecological and environmental upheavals, or to allow the innovations essential to progress.
Equality of rights in dignity, new equality of men before God?
“And God in all of this?“, Then asks Emmanuel Macron. “Contrary to what the Voltairian interpretation of the French Enlightenment has long imposed as a reading grid, this program for the development of the scientific mind is in no way opposed to the expression of religions“, Considers the President of the Republic, recalling”that it is not a question of imposing a frenzied positivism, a religion of science which would replace all the interpretations of the world“.
Across Europe, many “continuities between God and science, (between) religion and reason», Thus appear in the eyes of Emmanuel Macron. “Has not the equality of human rights in dignity and rights been prepared by the equality of men before God thought out by Christianity? Similarly, the critical spirit defended by the Enlightenment was not preceded by the individual relationship to the sacred text defended by Protestantism?», He pretends to question to support his thesis.
“Separate the temporal order from the spiritual order”
Inspired then in turn by the humanist writer of the Renaissance Rabelais, from the “English thinker Tom McLeish“, Or”great Jürgen Habermas», Emmanuel Macron ends his demonstration by quoting Aristide Briand, famous bearer of the law of 1905 on the separation of Churches and State. “It is by being faithful to (his) spirit, by following the path of concord that he traced that France will continue to be an infinitely rational and resolutely spiritual nation.“, Considers the head of state.
Defender of the “rich cohabitation“- which exists according to him”in each of us” – Between “aspiration to reason and need for transcendence“, Emmanuel Macron affirms that”yes, science and God, reason and religion can live side by side, sometimes even feed each other“. What, moreover, he judges “even desirable“. All this, he insists, however, thanks to “unique frame“Of secularism, a”nice idea»Which France has had for a century. And who, in “separating the temporal order from the spiritual order, makes (this) possible“.
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