nobody's suggesting mentioning Zeus and Odin in the European Constitution, right? Actually yes, they did. This was the funniest part of it. The original preamble - as far as I remember - mentioned "Hellenic" and "Christian" as two sources of European tradition (although neither Zeus nor Christian God). Then most of the left, led by France, throw a tantrum about the Christian stuff. Okay, so a version with neither of two mentioned was proposed . But no, it was not good enough: Greece was to stay, but Christians were to be ruled out (that was the moment it got ridiculous). Finally, both were scraped. Therefore we Europeans are legally floating, rootless, like dandelion seeds, very postmodernist... :)
Polish constitution (we have a Church-state separation, too) says in the preamble: We, the Polish Nation - all citizens of the Republic, Both those who believe in God as the source of truth, justice, good and beauty, As well as those not sharing such faith but respecting those universal values as arising from other sources...
Version for the European Constitution based on this text was also proposed and gained quite large following at one moment as taking a middle ground. But it was scraped, too - mainly due to the protests of guess who :)
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Date: 2006-02-17 02:09 pm (UTC)Actually yes, they did. This was the funniest part of it. The original preamble - as far as I remember - mentioned "Hellenic" and "Christian" as two sources of European tradition (although neither Zeus nor Christian God). Then most of the left, led by France, throw a tantrum about the Christian stuff. Okay, so a version with neither of two mentioned was proposed . But no, it was not good enough: Greece was to stay, but Christians were to be ruled out (that was the moment it got ridiculous).
Finally, both were scraped. Therefore we Europeans are legally floating, rootless, like dandelion seeds, very postmodernist... :)
Polish constitution (we have a Church-state separation, too) says in the preamble:
We, the Polish Nation - all citizens of the Republic,
Both those who believe in God as the source of truth, justice, good and beauty,
As well as those not sharing such faith but respecting those universal values as arising from other sources...
Version for the European Constitution based on this text was also proposed and gained quite large following at one moment as taking a middle ground. But it was scraped, too - mainly due to the protests of guess who :)