Do you think America is Freedom of religion or freedom from religion? What should it be and why?
2006-12-23 12:09:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Currently it's neither. One narrow brand of Christianity is imposed on everyone. It should be freedom from religion.
2006-12-23 12:24:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the way things stand here in the States it is more like freedom for SOME religions. What it should be is Freedom OF Religion. What I mean by that is this...people should NOT be held acountable to any authority beyond that of the religion that they follow. ALL things that are done under the auspices of religious beliefs are sacrisanct and cannot be questionsed by ANY outsider whatsoever. A person should follow solely and wholly the teachings and rules of their religion and NO other authority. IF your religions says you HAVE to do something or are ALOWED to do something then NO outsider can say otherwise. If your religions prohibits you from doing something then no outsider can say you ahve to do it. A to things that are NOT included in religious law, that is up to a persons religious leader to determine the proper course of action, and NO other authority.
Religious belief and religious law should be unquestionable to any that is not part of that religion and when there is a conflict between religious law and secular law, RELIGIOUS law should ALWAYS take precidence.
THAT is the way things are supposed to work...that is the way things SHOULD work. And when people finally understand that, when people STOP sacrificing their religious freedom for the sakeof either expediency, or in exchange for some imagined benefit that is not worth what they are giving up, ONLY then will we achieve true religious fredom.
2006-12-23 20:28:49 · answer #2 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where is that term used? The first amendment never says we have freedom of religion? It's a bad term. What it say it that Congress will make no Law establishing religion or restricting the free exercise thereof... To me that sound like no one is ever allowed to stop people from worshiping how and what they will. That would include the Mormons or the JW coming up and knocking on your door. After all that is an important part of the free exercise of their religion... Jim
2006-12-23 20:42:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom from Religion! What happened to Freedom of Religion? See below link.
http://wings-of-an-eagle3.com/wings2.html
2006-12-23 20:14:52 · answer #4 · answered by n_007pen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe freedom of religion should also mean freedom to choose no religion.
2006-12-23 20:18:01 · answer #5 · answered by sjstalost 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The phrase "Freedom of Religion" does not appear in the Bill of Rights--it was a phrase used by a Supreme Court justice in a ruling. (It's something like: Congress shall neither create a state mandated religion nor prevent the free practice thereof.)
2006-12-23 20:15:12 · answer #6 · answered by angel_light 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is niether.
if we had freedom of religion, then I, a legaly ordained minister.
would have the freedom to choose whom i will preform a marriage ceramony for. be they Homo or Hetero-sexual. based on the confines of my paticular religion. Mine does not prohibit
Gay marriage. but many states do. this is a violation of my freedom of religion, not to mention a violatin of the people's right to seek happiness.
If we had freedom from religion. the people knocking on my door at 7 am to tell me about jesus would be breaking laws. and i would not see giant billboards that claim to be messages from God.
2006-12-23 20:16:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its Freedom of Religion
So if you don't believe in a religion you aren't exercising your rights!
2006-12-23 20:13:52 · answer #8 · answered by onewhosubmits 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anyone can speculate as to what it should be, but our constitution guarantees us the freedom to practice our religion any way that we see fit within the laws of the land.
We cannot kill people in the name of practicing our religion, etc.
2006-12-23 20:13:55 · answer #9 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
sounds like college questions
even what we are told in history may be a spoof about pilgrims and freedom from religious tyranny of England
we are free no matter what we are told by any laws, it's your choice to go against or vote it in/out of existence with participation and not just whining
2006-12-23 20:14:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋