According to the Robert, predestination is a religious doctrine according to which God destines certain creatures to salvation by the sole force of his grace and dooms the others (whatever they do) to damnation. This belief is shared by several Christian denominations, notably Calvinist and Jansenist. These sects of Protestantism flourished and took root across the Atlantic where they greatly…
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Assimilation Is About Winning Identity Competition
“Millions of men want to merge into a body that provides them with the identity they do not have.” Patrick Buisson A community is a social body in which everyone aspires to merge. The social and cultural divide that is growing in a country is the result of the defeat of the national narrative over communitarian narratives. A baby, when…
+Holistic Practices Gone Astray
An agnostic society needs practices that support its ideological individualism. Holistic practices that are thousands of years old have been taken over by enthusiasts who are not only convinced but also opportunistic, who have set out to deconstruct them in order to profit from them. Let’s take a look at two trends that originated from holistic and spiritual practices but…
+Confusing Word With Deed
Living in the illusion of accomplishment In a static world where we spend most of our time sitting in a comfortable chair, seat or armchair, whether working, telecommuting, commuting or shopping online, we seem to have forgotten what moving implies and how it relates to action. Our fingers tapping away at a computer keyboard or the silicon of our smartphones…
+A Great Assurance As A Mask Of Incompetence
A certain culture has imposed itself on us. It comes to us from films, series and the charismatic characters they portray. This so-called popular mass culture has made us adopt codes coming from another world and above all it has incited us to ape these characters full of aplomb, whether consciously or not. This change is taking the appearance for…
+Beware Of The One Who Whispers In Your Ear
We are only as strong as the ideas that dominate us. The people around us can sometimes be a wall against the onslaught of a world that can be hostile, sometimes a Trojan horse that sabotages the efforts made without saying a word, out of sight for months. This voice that we allow to intrude deep inside us can wreak…
+There Is No Such Thing As Thinking Well
Thinking is an overused word. Thinking is a daily act that we do with more or less success. Thinking stops where dogma or doxa begins. The problem of our time, and maybe it has always been the case, is the bien-pensance, that is to say a leaden cap that is put on our heads to prevent us from wandering off…
+Where Sex Reigns, Love Is Absent
The frantic and uncontrolled search to satisfy in a thousand ways our sexual desire is more a matter of an existential and spiritual void than of a simple libido. Lust occupies a whole part of our mass culture, it is above all present in the series and the publicity. This hedonism has been set up as an art of living,…
+Nudge And Society
Nudge theory (or liberal paternalism theory), according to Wikipedia, is a concept from the behavioral sciences, political theory and economics, derived from industrial design practices, that argues that indirect suggestions can, without force, influence the motivations, incentives and decision-making of groups and individuals, at least as effectively if not more effectively than direct instruction, legislation or enforcement. Nudge acts at…
+Horizontal And Vertical Racism
Racism is defined as hatred or fear directed against a person on the basis of his or her origin or skin color. Despite the simplicity of this definition, it is difficult to understand the inability of certain so-called progressive currents to recognize all forms of racism, in particular that directed against people of European origin, known as white. The mental…
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