Freedom of Religion or Belief · Spiritual Minorities · Global Advocacy
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Claude-Gérard Sarrazin's polemical epistemology lesson: acts of faith beneath scientific knowledge, measuring instruments that cannot measure what they deny, the placebo as unexplained process, and the argument from authority that rules the paranormal inadmissible.
Claude-Gérard Sarrazin sets his own Quebec experiences, from the Mensa school project to the charismatic group that made him a 'sorcerer', against a history of the refusal of difference: Inquisition, Terror, Vichy, Hitler, Stalin, and today's secular fundamentalism.
Claude-Gérard Sarrazin's chapter on the ontological frontier between those who admit only matter and those who admit more: how the free-thinkers were right against religious hegemony, and how their heirs, he argues, are now taking up the torch of the fundamentalists they defeated - by refusing publication, by dismissing intelligence tests, and finally by curtailing the right to live according to one's conscience.