In November 1793, the cathedral became the site of the Festival of Reason, a revolutionary and anti-religious festival that both mocked Catholicism and suggested that French people should worship Enlightenment principles instead.
After the cathedral was plundered, it became the stage for a packed public event in which a seductively dressed actress portraying the Goddess of Reason was worshiped atop a mountain... The centuries-old cathedral was renamed the Temple of Reason. Almost everything inside was looted aside from its bells.
italics mine.
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I am not commenting on the woke wars in the USA because I don't live there, but we did watch the latest "God is not dead We the People", the 4th movie in the series.
Like the other films in the series, it is heavy handed in pushing it's agenda, but it does explain what is behind the fighting at secular school board meetings that I have read about in the paper:
the film was about home schooling and how the state was using federal standards to force a woke curriculum on home schoolers, but essentially the aim seems to be at eliminating the schools in the long run if they don't submit.
But it reminded me of when my son's small Christian school was threatened with being closed if they didn't get expensive renovations to make it wheel chair friendly.
Even though no one at the school needed a wheel chair.
What saved them from being closed was the fact that they took no federal or state funding so legally the state could not do this.
The school was essentially a home school run by the church, where they used home school modules and had a teacher/supervisor to help the kids. so it fell under home school laws, not regular school laws, as long as the kids could pass the regulation tests to prove they were learning.
Many in my family home schooled or went to church schools for various reasons: not just religious training but because of the presence of bullying in public school: because your child was a minority or was fat or was smart or was dumb or just was different.
Some children need an alternative to the chaos in public schools.
And Catholics, who saw Protestantism and anti Catholicism in the curriculum, recognized this a century ago, and faced the same arguments against their existence.
Catholic schools went through this legal fight years ago,
Church established its right to operate Catholic schools.
In the 1925 case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, the United States Supreme Court recognized the right of Catholic schools to exist. Oregon, fearing the presence of foreigners, enacted a law requiring all children between the ages of 8 and 16 to go to public schools.
and it looks like it's happening again, as many Catholic schools refuse to bow to hiring those who push the gender heresies of modern wokeism in curriculum or in hiring practices.
The main problem with the Catholic schools is that after the convents went woke and most of the nuns either left or decided to do their own thing, many closed or became too expensive for ordinary folk.
And of course Catholics are not the only churches who run schools: my mom's town had a Lutheran, Mennonite, and Catholic school. And although I haven't read a lot about them, I suspect there are a lot of small Muslim schools out there for the same reason that Catholics started their schools 150 years ago: bullying the children because they are immigrants, teaching immoral practices, ridiculing their religion, etc.
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New covid hysteria wave is a-coming.
But we were at 15000 cases a day in September and today's statistics show only 425 new cases.
But now we have kids with fever and a rash coming to ask for money to go to the doctor.
The Philippines is reporting a total of 61,170 dengue cases this year through October 23, including 216 deaths, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
we also are being asked to help people whose kids were bitten by a dog (one or 2 a week) and there is diarrhea going around in toddlers.
but what I really worry about is a measles outbreak because people were too afraid of going to the clinic and catching Covid, so they didn't get their kids a measles shot.
In poor countries, measles kills kids. Sigh.
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