Should America have freedom from religion?

Question

Many conservatives insist that America has only freedom of relgion, but they also argue that atheism is a religion. If that's true, what's the difference between freedom of relgion and freedom from religion?

Answer 1

i hope freedom of includes freedom from. it would be silly to say "you have to believe in something, we dont care what, but something" and why would someone ask is what country you're talking about?

Answer 2

I don't know. But the thought of freedom from religion is absurd! How do you make a class of people have freedom from religion? You are free to believe whatever you want in the US. If you mean, freedom from someone telling you about their religion, well that is a bit too oppressive. We need a good balance here.

Answer 3

As an atheist I believe humanity as a whole would be well served to put these superstitious delusions behind us. I firmly believe that promotion of and favoring of a particular religion is not an appropriate use of public funds. I also believe that all human progress occurs in relation to if not response to reactionary forces that want to return us to some form of feudalism, slavery and theocracy, and we need these negative elements to spur the rest of us to active effort to move ahead. It's the con artists like John Hagee and Jack Van Impe that go around preaching doomsday that piss me off enough to get involved and do something to make the world a better place. As James T. Kirk said in Star Trek five, "I don't want to get rid of my pain! I need my pain!" Religionists are my pain, goading me to be better and do more.

Answer 4

"Congress shall make no regulation respecting a company of religion, or prohibiting the unfastened exercising thereof; or abridging the liberty of speech, or of the clicking; or the remarkable of the people peaceably to hold at the same time, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" (US Const., modification a million.) Now, it does not forbid religious expressions, it basically prohibits the government from enjoying favorites and/or prohibiting particular religions. If the billboards are ran by utilising people no longer interior the government, then the 1st modification does not practice to them. despite if, despite if that's ran by utilising the government, it is going to be accessible to all people who pay the fee for an advert on a billboard.

Answer 5

Freedom of religion is all inclusive. Freedom from religion is all exclusive. NOT TO WORRY,religion and water baptism has served its purpose and is already in process of disolution. we are in an age of spiritual unity. teachers both good and bad are springing up everywhere teaching metaphysic's,if a teacher does not teach "GOD DWELLS WITHIN YOU AS YOU" and teach the techniques of attaining that awareness,he is not very aware of GOD.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

There can't be freedom of religion without freedom from religion!

http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/

Answer 8

America should have freedom of religion, but since we were founded and set up with Christian values, they should be taught in our public schools and if people want to teach something else to their kids let them do it at home.

Answer 9

No difference at all. It only comes up with fundamentalists who make very strange assumptions that the US was founded as a christian nation. It wasn't.

The founders had every possible opportunity to declare the US a christian nation and specifically chose not to do so.

Answer 10

Your question is semantic and I cant answer it that way.
The Citizens of the USA should each be allowed to worship, or not worship. Believe or not believe. I, for one, have difficulty with "In God we Trust" written on all the currency I use, and etc., but not enough to insist we change it.
I do NOT wish my government to operate from a position of what "god" wants, however...