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Featured Column: Commentary Too - Mar 28, 2012
- Religious Freedom...or Religious Farce
by S.K. Eleton
What is religious freedom? Is it the freedom to believe in your own heart of hearts, to think in your own mind of minds? Is it the freedom to go door to door, and try to save souls from the burning hell you hate to see anyone live in for eternity? Is religious freedom the freedom to bring your children up in your religion, or the freedom to wear the trappings of your religion freely in public? Does religious freedom mean never having to hear anyone mocking, deriding, or otherwise critiquing your deeply held beliefs? Is it the freedom to insist that others listen to you explain your beliefs, or the freedom to insist that children pray in school, even if their parents are non-religious? Is it the freedom to impose your will on the government, and make sure laws are passed that support your point of view, even if other people don’t agree with your position – to legislate the morality of strangers? Is it the freedom to collect tax dollars to support your church, while remaining exempt from the civil rights laws that other recipients must follow? Is it the freedom to allow your child to die an agonizing death, because you believe that faith will cure him, and your god doesn’t want you to go to doctors? Religious freedom is a flashpoint, a talking point, a slogan, and, in some cases, a manipulative hustle. It is a right guaranteed by the Constitution, but none of the above rights are specifically listed in our guiding document, so how do we define the right to free worship? Where do our rights end and others begin? In the current political climate, these may become some of the most important issues of the day. Before you point out that the economy, the war(s), the state of education, or the environment are all much more important, do this for me: go and listen to a debate, and see which of the above topics is the most discussed. Even when the candidates discuss one of the “more important” issues of the day, it seems they nearly always do bring in God, Jesus, or Christianity in some form. I would argue that, at this point, this may be the most important issue of the day, whether we want it to be or not. Those who live and die by scripture (or think... more
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