[lbo-talk] Talal Asad on Secularism, Liberalism, and Human Rights

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Oct 24 13:23:33 PDT 2007


Rakesh Bhandari wrote:

"...the limits of liberal secularism (think of violence against Catholics after the French Revolution)..."

Although the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and the Nonjuring Clergy were always mainstays of reaction, "violence against Catholics" was insignificant until the White Terror of the Vend´eean uprising. When it came, the violence, despite sometimes terrible excesses (one of which is immortalized in Poulenc's opera) was legitimate revolutionary self defense.

Shane Mage

"Humanity will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." (Voltaire)



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