Most of the European press (and, indeed, most European elites) talk as if Europe must be "laicist," which is the word they use for "aggressively secular," in the manner of the French Revolution.
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Laicist
Synonyms for "laicist"
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French
4 entries- laïcard adj (laicist (adjective))
- laïcarde adj (laicist (adjective))
- laïciste adj (laicist (adjective))
- laïciste noun (laicist (noun))
German
3 entries- laizistisch adj (laicist (adjective))
- Laizist noun (laicist (noun))
- Laizistin noun (laicist (noun))
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Today, we face the wave of secularism which has as its starting point the strict separation of Church and State: a laicist model advocating that the State should be strictly separate from religion which is conceived as belonging exclusively to the private domain.
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Thirty years later, with the connivance of the Parti Quebecois, the laicists proceeded to attack Catholic schools by means of the Proulx Report of 1999.
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