WhoIam wrote:I wouldn't say that Enjolras would be atheist, because in chapter five of Jean Valjean book one, he talks about the future. "...for religion the heavens, God a direct priest..."
LaRévolutionnaire wrote:I don't know why, but I always thought Enjolras was an atheist... I think it's because I see, I do not know where, something that says that republican were atheist... Or maybe it was my brother, who is an republican atheist... I don't know...![]()
I know that at this period, in France, about everyone were catholic, and I think that most of les Amis are catholic. But I still think that Enjolras is an atheist. What do you think? Is this completely ridiculous, or not?![]()
LaRev
Marianne wrote:LaRévolutionnaire wrote:I don't know why, but I always thought Enjolras was an atheist... I think it's because I see, I do not know where, something that says that republican were atheist... Or maybe it was my brother, who is an republican atheist... I don't know...![]()
I know that at this period, in France, about everyone were catholic, and I think that most of les Amis are catholic. But I still think that Enjolras is an atheist. What do you think? Is this completely ridiculous, or not?![]()
LaRev
French republicanism has an aggressively secularist streak, but that doesn't necessarily mean atheism. It doesn't rule it out entirely, but openly-avowed atheism was fairly rare at the time and tended to be... hm, how to put it? An active and quite radical statement that God doesn't exist, rather than a simple lack of belief. I tend to imagine most of the Amis as culturally-Catholic Deists of varying stripes.
(French secularism, btw, is rather different from American separation of church and state. The American version is at least as much about protecting religion from state influence/persecution as it is about keeping religion out of government--it's rooted in the US's history as a haven for sects that didn't get along with the official state religion and assumes a multiplicity of different faiths. French laïcité is born out of the experience of one monolithic institution--the Catholic church--trying to exert undue influence on the running of the country, and is almost entirely about trying to protect the state--in some versions, the entire public square--from the meddling of religion.)
Louise wrote:I don't know about the religions of most of the Les Amis, but I think that Enjolras would be a deist like his hero Robespierre.
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