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- Samuel - 04-14-2014 09:02 PM
Freedom of religion will survive. Islam has a long history of tolerance towards other religions despite its violent present, and Christianity is quite tolerant in the present despite its violent past. We have completely secular Muslim-majority countries too, so we're all good with religious freedom.
- kookookachoo7863 - 04-14-2014 09:06 PM
Not if we anti-theists can continue to hold the line. That, and the fact that it is extremely difficult to change or amend our Constitution.
- imacatholic2 - 04-14-2014 09:16 PM
Christians brought freedom of religion to this country.
75% of the people in the world now live in countries where religious freedom is highly restricted:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/12/10/human-rights-day-still-pursuing-religious-freedom/
http://www.pewforum.org/2012/09/20/rising-tide-of-restrictions-on-religion-findings/
Let's make the world more free, not less.
The entire world agreed to include freedom of religion in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. See Article 2: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
The citizens of the United States think this freedom is just as important as the freedoms of speech or the press. All are part of the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html
Even the Catholic Church seeks and supports the freedom of religion for all human beings. In the Vatican II document, Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae (Human Dignity), the Church states:
The human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.
For the entire document, see: http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html
The Most Sacred of All Property: Religious Freedom and the People of Maryland: A Statement from the Catholic Bishops of Maryland http://www.mdcathcon.org/library/resources/RLLaunch/ReligiousLibertyStatementbyMdBishops.pdf
With love in Christ.