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Of Jerome Bourbon
Article published in the French weekly Rivarol, n° 3358 of the 26 December 2018
As he has done every year since 2014, the Mayor of Béziers, Robert Menard, had set up a nativity scene in his town hall. The administrative court of Montpellier immediately ordered him to remove the nativity scene by 48 hours and also imposed a penalty of 2.000 euros for each day of delay. The judge recalled that «the installation of such a nativity scene, on a temporary basis, on the initiative of a public person, in a public place, it is legally possible only when it has a cultural character, artistic or festive, without expressing recognition of a cult or indicating a religious preference. ».
But who will determine, and according to what criteria, if it is a cultural initiative, festive or religious? The judge of the proceedings, which should rule on the urgency, gives a basic opinion on the nativity scene and arbitrarily decides that it is a religious and not a cultural event.
The mayor of Béziers tried to remedy the situation by moving the nativity scene... twelve metres. Initially located in the main courtyard of the town hall, the nativity scene is now located under the portico of the town hall, but outside the official perimeter of the «People's House». Aware that justice could ask him to move it again, he prudently opted for a nativity scene... on wheels!
But the judge's decision is fraught with consequences. In this matter, the most significant thing is that this judgment was issued following a complaint from the vice-prefect of Hérault, who submitted the matter to the Administrative Court of Montpellier under urgent procedure. «We ask for the immediate removal of the nativity scene», vice-prefect Christian Pouget had in fact declared furiously to the newspaper Midi Libre il 4 December 2018. He evidently promptly carried out his threats.
In the 2017, the State had already brought legal action and won.
This time too it is like this.
It was therefore not the Mohammedan or openly secularist groups who asked in the 2017 e 2018 the dismantling and removal of the nativity scene, but the French state, the French Republic.
As already written by Robert Ménard in a press release published on 18 December 2017 after the previous ban: «for the first time in France, the State expels the nativity scene from a municipality"... "It is not a question of some "secularist" associations determined to kill our saints, as happened in 2014 and in 2016. No, this time it is the State itself, through its representative in Hérault, to have the nativity scene removed. This is a "first", whose symbolic significance – and historical – never ceases to amaze us.»
It's the state, at its highest level, which decrees the ban on nativity scenes in public places; and once again the wicked decision was taken by the highest administrative court, the Council of State, the same one who had arbitrarily banned Dieudonné's shows because they disturbed public order in 2014; the same as in 1989 affirmed the superiority of European law over national law (Nicolo ruling).
Indeed, already the 9 November 2016, this court had banned nativity scenes in public buildings with a ruling, except in extremely restrictive special circumstances.
As you can see, with this emblematic example,we live in an occupied country. Mentally busy, intellectually, spiritually. Occupied by lobbies, by men and organizations that are foreign to the soul of historic France, who every day deny the baptismal promises of our homeland, who promote falsehood, the filthy one, evil.
Actually, their secularism is, from the beginning, a war machine against the soul of France, against his historical and true religion, against the faith of his ancestors, which has so deeply permeated our lands, our landscapes, i nostri territorii, our traditions, our calendar, the names and surnames that we bear and that we give to our children, but also to the villages, to cities or monuments, and which has permeated our vocabulary, our sayings, and until a few decades ago, before the universal apostasy, also our ways of life and thought.
“Secularism” is often presented as the application of the principle of state neutrality towards different confessions, all placed on the same level (égalité et nivellement obligent – ​​equality and leveling demand it), which is already a condemnable philosophical principle in itself. Ma, actually, it's not even about that. Indeed,the alleged "secularism" is only the cover of a fanatical atheism which is in itself a real counter-religion, therefore a tool, a'weapon, in the context of open warfare, but which advances in disguise and above all which refuses to be designated as such with the excuse of republican egalitarianism!
This is why it is inconsistent to fight Islam in our country in the name of secularism, because we cannot fight against a conquering religion with a weapon that has exactly destroyed and debased us for over two centuries, that cut our roots, our past, our heritage, our descendants, and which acts on us like a debilitating gas.
In front of the crescent moon, as in the face of the Shoah, more than ever it is necessary to contrast the nativity scene and the Cross!
It is no coincidence that today more and more churches are destroyed or transformed into cinemas, in tourist offices, in particular homes, in public rooms, in hotels; and tomorrow, without a doubt, in mosques or supermarkets.
Also the journalist Caroline Fourest, very active in LGBT lobbies, he planned to turn churches into shopping malls. And on the other hand, these are the places where a large part of consumers now gather on Sundays – when the warehouses are open, something that happens with increasing frequency.
Once upon a time we gathered in the church square, in the center of the village, and we all met as we left Mass: those who had attended the services and those who had gone to the café across the street, but everyone participated in village life. Today it is the anonymous shopping center, or the stadium, the place to live and at the end of the chain is the cancer center, the oncology center, which is completely understandable, because industrial food sold in hypermarkets can only produce disastrous effects.
Right, since the churches are emptying, it is logical that they end up disappearing. What no longer seems useful in a society, at some point, ends up crumbling.
But if the churches empty, it's not just because we live in a materialistic and hedonistic society where God appears optional or even superfluous for most people, but it's also because, a partire dal Vaticano II, the cult that is still practiced, here and there, there is nothing sacred about it anymore, nothing more that elevates the soul, nothing more that unites man to God, to Heaven. In sermons generally very mediocre (Bossuet is no longer worth it!) a horizontal humanitarianism is dispensed to us, a compassionate human right that foolishly paraphrases what is already taught all day in school, in the media, in variety shows, in the cinema. If it is to listen in the parish church to the speeches and accents that are already constantly fed to us everywhere, It's no wonder people don't go to church anymore.
We live in a spiritual desert whose extent and depth we undoubtedly cannot measure, and whose consequences are and will be immeasurable for families, for the nations, for harmony in society, for the common good.
It is now fashionable to repeat that religious beliefs are tainted by disorder, from violence, from hatred and crime; and we are pleased to enumerate the massacres that, in history, would have been committed in the name of God; failing to specify that in this type of tragedies it was most often essentially political motivations that made their way masked behind the appearance of religious claims.
On the contrary, we never question the extent of the crimes, of persecutions, of violence, of injustices committed in the name of rejecting God, in the name of its radical denial.
Nevertheless, Wasn't it perhaps atheistic communism that, to the four corners of the world, it caused by far the greatest number of victims in the 20th century?
And starting from the French Revolution, is it not perhaps in the name of the rejection of religion that innocent people have been massacred, from the Vendée to the Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, that priests and religious have killed themselves, That, despising all justice and all humanity, the convents and churches closed, congregations suppressed, led many priests and religious into exile, and the largest theft in history was perpetrated: appropriating, both under the Revolution and under the Third Republic, of the goods of the Church, del clero, of all parish churches built before 1905?
Totally eliminating God from the public domain constitutes a great danger for man, for the company, for social harmony, for life in common; because faith must be able to be lived, not only in one's conscience, in your own home, in your own family, but also in public: in worship, in processions and pilgrimages, in churches and chapels, through statues and ordeals, Way of the Cross, Rosary from the Crucifixion. It must be able to be lived and expressed in schools and courts, in administrations and also in hospitals.
If the nativity scenes that the last municipalities still want to prepare are eliminated, although we must confess that many now do it out of folklore and out of respect for local traditions which are still popular, rather than in the name of an ardent faith, it's because we have already removed every trace of religion and the divine from other public places, which led to the inevitable outcome, at the height of the nation's public apostasy.
But then this Divine Child, however small, silent and defenseless, it greatly embarrasses the powerful of this world, if they decide to hide it, to make it disappear from public places with impressive fanaticism!
And indeed, the simple sight of this Child, of his holy Mother and his holy adoptive father, the humble carpenter who handles the plane, it is unbearable for those who hold the levers of control in this country: because the Holy Family represents par excellence everything that they fight, everything they hate.
The Holy Family represents purity and innocence, in the face of those who scandalize and pervert childhood and youth, from an early age, which promote all perversions, all deviations, dal Gay Pride – officially sponsored every year in San Giovanni by the Head of State, by the mayor of Paris and the regional council of Ile-de-France – to homosexual “marriage”., through those sordid realities hidden behind the horrible IVG acronyms [Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy], PACS [Civil Solidarity Pact – aka recognition of homosexual couples], PMA [Medically Assisted Procreation] e GPA [Gestation Pour Autrui – aka utero in affitto] and through ever-increasing diffusion, on television and on the web, of pornography.
The Holy Family represents poverty and simplicity, in the face of those who think of getting richer every day at the expense of less well-off people; at the expense of nature, of temperance and common sense; to the detriment of the millions of yellow vests who express anguish in their own way, anger and desperation in the face of the power that strips them, li care, li rovina e li depreda.
The Holy Family represents peace, silence and discretion, in the face of this world that lives only on noise, of media fury, of shouts and shouts and which is in permanent conspiracy against every form of interior life, against any aspiration to meditation and contemplation; a world where there must always be noise and annoying music in shops, in restaurants, in means of transport and also on the street.
The Holy Family represents intransigence on principles, in the face of a world without a spine and whose only values ​​are ever-changing ones.
The Holy Family represents love for truth and sincerity, in the face of those who are false and cunning, and whose second nature is lying, and who never cease to deceive, to deceive, to manipulate, to mislead, by fudging the numbers, the statistics, the story, memory, with broken promises, with pacts violated without shame, with betrayals and ideas, that they say they have to get elected, and the people who helped them advance their careers.
The Holy Family represents the life that is given, it sacrifices itself and perpetuates itself, natural and supernatural life, the life of the body and the soul, the simple life and the life of grace, in the face of a deadly world in which they want to legalize active euthanasia and assisted suicide, even children, in which we deal with the two extremes of life: with aborted fetuses and euthanased elderly people; while test-tube babies are being manufactured in the laboratory for homosexual couples and the way is being opened to the rental of the mother's womb for the satisfaction of sodomites in the mood for fresh meat!
We can go further into the barbarism and commodification of human beings?
Christianity par excellence is the religion and civilization of the Incarnation, because he adores the incarnate Word, the God who became man. On the contrary, the modern world is that of disembodiment and counter-incarnation. It is the world of the virtual and no longer the real, of the anonymity of social networks and not the warmth of a loving family. It is the world of instant emotion that makes the masses cry over the injuries of small screen stars, but he doesn't take care of his grandfather, of the aunt, of the child or neighbor, who would greatly need human presence and warmth.
Bernanos already said: «Modern man has a hard heart, but the stomach is sensitive".
This world is that of rhinestones and sequins and not that of humble domestic virtues, of the daily martyrdom of state duty, of tireless effort, of discreet devotion within the family.
It is the world of immediacy and evanescence, of individualism and egocentrism, the world where you can make millions in a few minutes on a stupid TV game show; a world in which you can change overnight, without any problem, sex, religion, organization, “sexual orientation”; a world in which one can continually reinvent oneself, transform, redo a life – as if you had multiple lives!
It is the world of appearance and entertainment, of the adulterated person, of maceration and spoilage, of the dead end, of lies and death, against Him who is the Way, Truth and Life.
It's the world in which we are endlessly tied to our cell phones, to GPS, to your computer and MP3 or MP4 player, but in which one is no longer deeply connected to the earth, nor to nature, nor to others, born in Dio.
As for us, we have at heart the defense of this very simple tradition of the Christmas nativity scene and its saints which express the mysteries of our religion in a completely simple and completely understandable way, that nourish our faith, that expand our hearts, that inflame our hope; we chase the horrible Santa Claus out of our house, imported by American soldiers together with the filthy Coca-Cola.
Light is not meant to be put under a bushel... we can make it radiate all around us. The diffusion of good, of beauty and truth is possible if we avoid the contagion of the world and if, despite the torments and earthly vicissitudes, we keep an invincible hope and Christian joy in our hearts., simple and profound, that no one can take away from us.
Happy and Holy Christmas to everyone!