反カルトの「アブ・ピカール法」は実際の虐待に対して効果はなく、信教の自由に対する脅威である。政府はそれをさらに危険なものにしたいと思っている。
France
« Sectes ». La France prévoit de rendre une mauvaise loi encore plus mauvaise
La loi antisectes About-Picard est inefficace contre les abus réels mais dangereuse pour la liberté religieuse. Le gouvernement veut la rendre encore plus dangereuse.
France Plans to Make a Bad Law Worse
The anti-cult About-Picard law is ineffective against real abuses and dangerous for religious liberty. The government wants to make it even more dangerous.
France: Rémi Mogenet, a Victim of Anti-Cultism, Testifies
When anti-cultists discovered that the respected scholar was also the president of an organization promoting biodynamic agriculture and an admirer of Rudolf Steiner, all hell broke loose.
An American Scholar Looks at Scientology in France—and at the Sonia Backès Saga
A scholarly article notes how in France “political power can be weaponized against minority religions with the backing of the state.”
A Visit to Bergerac. 2. In Search of “Mere Christianity”
A visit to the exhibition “Bergerac and Protestantism” and a dialogue on “basic orthodoxy” as a need in our secular age.
A Visit to Bergerac. 1. Protestants, Catholics, and the State Between War and Peace
Bergerac is famous for literature, food—and bloody wars.
Why Secularism Is Dangerous. 2. French “Laïcité” as a Source of Major Injustice
Sometimes words have two meanings, and great abuses may come from ideological confusion. It is not a French problem only.
Why Secularism Is Dangerous. 1. An Outrageous Crime in France: Kids Pray
Recent events confirm France’s stubbornness in preventing any public manifestation of religions. To get the work done, secularism mobilizes state teams aimed at re-educating children in schools.
“Psychological Subjugation”: France Ready to Invent a New (or Old?) “Cultic Crime”
Secretary of State Sonia Backès announces a new anti-cult statute. It is yet another incarnation of the discredited notion of brainwashing and of the fabrication of false “victims.”