Hereza look at the map of France voting "no" (red) and "yes" (blue) on the Euro constitution.
Look familiar? Sea of red with bits of blue on the extreme left and right of the map?
Just know I’ve seen that somewhere before.
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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However Jimmy, most of those who voted “no” where leftists…
And they voted “no” just because they wanted more State in every day life…
Morever in the evening, after the results it was frigthening to see that azll those who called to vote “yes” (exept the member of the government) did’nt really recognise what happened… They just said : with this vote, the french have sanctionned the bad politic of the prime minister …
Listening to them = the no means yes, but we are so stupid that we voted no just because of Chirac and Raffarin…
Well our politicians aren’t very good exemple of how to listen to the people.
Non a la Constitution!
First of all, I am French so I have a right to meddle. Secondly, merde, merde, merde.
Paradoxally the area where “yes” was the majority are the more catholic ones!
Particularly in Bretagne, extreme west of the map ( where a stronger catholicism is due to St Louis Marie Grignon de Monfort ‘s heritage?)…
Catholic? Is France Catholic? I didn’t know.
Ahhh… Those Frenchy’s! What CAN’T they turn thier noses up at!!
I didn’t mean that France was catholic… I have been unclear . Of course France could be said Catholic on the paper (60 or 70 %); Practically not…
But it’s true that some areas are far more practising than others. I live in one of the most dechristianised part of France (it means very very few catholics). But there are areas where catholic are still visible.
I thought the Karl Marx primary school had to be a joke. Really, it sounds like something out of Monty Python.
Spock: Don’t worry. You were clear. Ed was joking with you.
Catholic? Is France Catholic? I didn’t know.
Don’t you know? The “eldest harlot of the Church” and all that?
The Lefties were the thrust of the “non” vote…mostly because they see the EU constitution as a threat to their four day work week and other public benefits and services. Hey, there’d be less of an excuse to leave grandma alone in a stifling apartment on a hot, beachworthy day in the middle of a heat wave.
On the other side of the “non” vote were Le Pen and his crazies. Probably not enough fascism for their buck in the constitution.
I think very few of those who voted against the EU constitution did so for the good reasons.
I think one thing created a huge appeal for the “no”.
Those militing for the “yes” didn’t stop saying : it’s yes : there is no other solution… The treaty won’t be negociated again.
So the democratic fibers of many have been injured. If we can’t say “no”, is Europe still democratic?
Add this to french spirit (which is to oppose to the direction where every bodu goes) and all the other reasons such as need of more social, fear of the end of french nation, deficit of democratie in European establishment, no christian roots (for me that was decisiv), etc…
The “no” is a melting pot.
And they voted “no” just because they wanted more State in every day life.
Are the red areas the ones in which citizens receive the most government aid (just like in the U.S.)?
“Are the red areas the ones in which citizens receive the most government aid”
No, I really don’t think ….
But the no wasn’t just a socialist No (even if it was the greatest). Some said no for other reasons…
Generally big towns (“big” for France of course 😉 ) were more likely to vote yes than small towns and villages.
I don’t think Brittany’s “yes” vote was motivated so much by Catholicism as a desire to lessen the French stranglehold on their language and culture. Hard to blame them, really.
I am so sick and tired of all the labels used boxes that people feel they must other people into.
How would the USofA (or any country) look if instead of taking the “winner take all” colour and making the State or Province “that” colour (Red or Blue or Teal or whatever), in the USofA, they distributed electoral votes by percentage of the vote received(as Colorado tried to implement by State Referendum).
Just imagine… we might actually look like “United States” rather than the polorised country that others want us to believe we are.
Please, why don’t we emphasise and celebrate our similarites and what we have in common rather than our differences. At least, that is how JP2 wished us to be, may he rest in peace.