At a time when, believers or not, we have just celebrated the Transfiguration of the Virgin Mary, at a time when the assassination attempt of this incredibly brave man, Salman Rushdie, captures everything that matters in the world in the outrage of honest people. and fear, it is well to remember that Christianity, unlike other religions, is really the origin of this republican universalism, which in many respects is only a secularized version.
Three main passages from the Gospels are enough to show this. The first is, of course, the parable of the talents. contrary to the great Greek aristocratic ethics of Plato and Aristotle, it conveys a message that will be important to the republican universe, namely that the dignity of a being does not depend on the talents he has received, but on what he does with them , not of natural endowments, but of his work, his freedom, and his will, whatever endowment he may have from his departure;
Source: Le Figaro
