I haven't write on my blog for months... But I'm still at INSA and I still have english lessons!
I also wrote an article for the newspaper of my school: INSATIABLE. I 'll try to share it here in english!
On september 2013, the administration of INSA decided to refuse to AGAPE, a christian association of the campus, the right to meet in a room of the school, as the association has done it for many years.
This decision give me the wish to write this article because it is the reflect of our generation point of view about religion. For most of our, religion would be like rugby team which usually punch the other team, here comes the rugbalistic expression "oh, what a cathedral!!"??
However in reality, religion isn't only a frame of conflict and believers from differents confessions listen to each other more than we think. A prooth is the conference between the rabbin, Elie Zekkri, the bishop of Lyon, cardinal Barbarin and the rector of villeurbanne mosque, Azzedine Gaci.
But religion aren't only a subject of conversation and exchange. It is principaly deep life school. Learn to do silence in our world where noise is all, where we run everywhere isn't easy feat. On this topic, INSA may decided to apply a mechanical simplification to humans: sum (interior forces) = 0 !
Also religion ask question about our priority. Today, we can easyli idolize the God-Money. Money who influence us on the way we see others and nature, who give sense to our life and that we think almighty. In face to our economical society of hyperconsumption, which let scandalous inequality, religion invite each of us to build a world where we share ressouces.
In our society, religion seems most of time like a set of superstitions and so opposite to scientifical reason developped on campus. But science and faith aren't opposite. They did'nt answer to the same questions. Science search how and faith why?
This research to give sense, understood as direction and meaning, to our tiny life, cannot be resolved scientifically. In this quest, believers don't pretend to possess the truth. God is a reality that overpasses the human mind. In the big monotheist religions: Islam forbidden all representations that would always be inferior to God and in Christiannity, the God of the trinity still a myster.
By taking the decision to forbid religious organisation, INSA doesn't offer to belivers the place to speak, think and live their faith. But it prevent curious to increase their religious culture. According to me, it can lead to intolerance by leak of knowledge.
Laicity is a delicate subject. It is a nice value if it helps personnal reflexion and mutual respect. But today, it is important to think of application of laïcity in the society. Indeed we cannot speak about religion without feeling a malaise.
Why speaking of God is considered so intrusif? We should search a laicity that lead to a real dialogue and not an interdiction imposed by a form of fundamental atheism.
I think that a sincere atheist is obliged to doubt, as much as believer. May be, to know the doubt of the other can lead us to go forward together. It's my hope. The benefice of the doubt: A dialogue who doesn't try to convince but to know.
