Thursday, February 7, 2008

French Elite, Atheist Manifesto

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Meanwhile, in France, things are different among the political elites.

Whereas here, in the U.S., politicians on both sides of the aisle — and even this year’s most prominent libertarian — now bend over backwards to say nice things about religion and faith, in France, the president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has co-written at least one article of which I am aware with Europe’s best-known promoter of atheism, philosopher Michel Onfray.

Tonight, I hope to post a brief review of Onfray’s Atheist Manifesto, which gets to the heart of the matter during this blog’s “Month Without God.”

Think of the situation in France:

•Market-friendly, relatively pro-U.S. president who was notoriously drunk at a G8 meeting

•His new wife and former mistress formerly an avowed polyamorist (and model, seen above, as well as a good singer) — who has been called “libertarian” by the UK Guardian

•His co-writer a militant — and I mean militant — atheist who wants to see religion ended completely

In short: France is practically run by Ayn Rand characters now.

3 comments:

Tim said...

Speaking of Ayn Rand, it might be interesting if Holly

popped up. Maybe she is too busy. Does she know

about your web page?

Sorry about my posts – they seem to pop up far sloppier

than I thought I composed them.

Todd Seavey said...

This isn’t a social-networking site, though, Tim. I don’t promise anything but _me_, blathering about the same philosophical topics, over and over again, at the risk of sounding obsessive.

Sarah Federman said...

Looks like I am going at a good time