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Emmanuel Macron has been declared the President of France after early vote counts:
France has a new president. Emmanuel Macron – an independent centrist who has never held elected office – has won a resounding victory over far-right, nationalist Marine Le Pen in the most important French presidential race in decades, according to early vote counts by the French Interior Ministry.
In early returns, Macron had won an estimated 65 percent of the vote to Le Pen's nearly 35 percent, according to the French Interior Ministry. Le Pen has already called to congratulate Macron and conceded defeat to a gathering of her supporters in Paris.
Also at The Guardian (live), Washington Post, NYT, Reuters, and The Local.
From CNBC: Euro hits six-month high on Macron victory
CNN editorial: Why Macron's victory is reassuring ... and yet not
BBC has an article about Macron's potential choice of Prime Minister.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by julian on Monday May 08 2017, @05:50AM
Nowhere did I imply that the history of Western culture began with Christianity. Obviously Greek and Roman influences predated it--and I agree that Christianity was not an improvement, especially for science and philosophy.
The rest of that seems to be you getting angry at how some people choose to use language and define their terms. I'm perfectly happy with Christian atheism as an idea, it seems perfectly coherent to me even if I don't agree with it (Jesus was not a great moral teacher). And likewise I don't see any paradox in considering oneself to be a cultural or non-practicing Christian/Muslim/Hindu/etc. These phrases accurately track people's experiences and conceptions of themselves so I find them useful.