{"id":1208,"date":"2023-10-07T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/07\/the-lapse-of-laicite-cause-and-effect\/"},"modified":"2023-10-07T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T13:44:38","slug":"the-lapse-of-laicite-cause-and-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/07\/the-lapse-of-laicite-cause-and-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lapse of La\u00efcit\u00e9: Cause and Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/the-lapse-of-laicite?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\">leader<\/a>. In this entry I unpack what I consider to be a brilliant insight of Finkielkraut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Alain Finkielkraut:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Laicity is the solution that modern Europe found in order to escape its religious civil wars. But contemporary Europe doesn\u2019t take religion seriously enough to know how to stick to this solution. She has exiled faith to the fantastic world of human irreality that the Marxists called \u201csuperstructure\u201d\u2026 thus, precisely through their failure to believe in religion, the representatives of secularism empty laicity of its substance, and swallow, for humanitarian reasons, the demands of its enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d39f6e21200b-pi\" width=\"500\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack leader. In this entry I unpack what I consider to be a brilliant insight of Finkielkraut. Alain Finkielkraut: Laicity is the solution that modern Europe found in order to escape its religious civil wars. But contemporary Europe doesn\u2019t take religion seriously enough to know how to stick to this solution. She has exiled faith &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/07\/the-lapse-of-laicite-cause-and-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lapse of La\u00efcit\u00e9: Cause and Effect&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,118,180,119,103,338,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-culture-matters","category-decline-of-the-west","category-islamism","category-marx","category-secularism","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}