It’s a difficult debate, complicated again in the case of the Free France that the institutions against Vichy always controlled a part of the French Empire.
However, my first comment was more because I understood the way you worded your first message as “the Nazis destroyed the Vichy regime” when the Vichy regime was established by the Nazis.
Yes, but there’s a conflict on its legitimacy. The question is: had the National Assembly the power to pass the constitutional law of 1940 or not? For Vichy, of course yes, and then the Third Republic stopped there. But for the Free France (the political branch of the Résistance), this law was illegal, and then the Third Republic was still the legitimate form of the French government. That’s why in 1944, at the Liberation, De Gaulle didn’t proclaimed a new Republic, but passed an ordinance reestablishing the Third one.
Small correction in an otherwise very interesting message:
The previous French state (Vichy France) was destroyed by Nazi Germany.
Vichy France is the result of the destruction of the Third Republic by Nazi Germany. But de jure, the Third Republic’s constitution was still legitimate until the new constitution of 1946.
Criticising those who criticise liberals for acting morally superior and not taking action to feel morally superior and not have to take action to feel morally superior and not have to take action to feel morally superior and not have to take action.
Have kids and an incontinent cat, and despair.
Exactly. And that’s why I don’t think it’s offensive.
To say that being an asshole makes you lonely doesn’t mean that all lonely men are assholes.
You’re welcome :-)
I like to compare religions to languages. They are tools to speak about the unspeakable, but they don’t necessary oppose each other when they have different doctrines, like French doesn’t oppose English when it calls “maison” what English calls “house”.
By definition, God is a reality that exists outside time and space, there’s no way our mind can define it. But like you need a language to speak, you need to practice a religion to develop your spirituality, even if you know that your religion is not the only way to develop it. You can also speak more than one language, and you can practice more than one religion, but it’s harder.
You obviously didn’t read the Bible, you can’t find two pages that agree with each other, and that didn’t bother the redactors of the Bible.
I fail to understand why, in religion as in politics by the way, differences and disagreements should be a problem. Diversity is a strength!
You know everything, apparently.
So I’m not the only one who developed an inferiority complex with a fictional cartoon dog?
You don’t think being reified is demeaning?
However:
I suspect your view may be distorted by algorithms feeding you content they expect you to enjoy.
And an accusation. Let’s stop, you don’t discuss in good faith.
One can’t judge a relationship on an image alone but… there’s a few redflags on this one. I hope for you they’re false alarms.