Do you believe in freedom of all religion or freedom of christian religion?

Question

How does your answer coincide with beliefs on religion in government?

How about freedom from religion?

If you believe in freedom of all religion, how does that reconcile with your concerns for the security of the country?

Answer 1

I'm in the freedom from religion category. Sadly, I think America is keeps moving closer to a theocratic-police state. Christians seem to think that certain privileges should be extended to them but not to others. They seem hellbent on painting gays as to blame for every social ill while absolving themselves of any responsibility. I personally am tired of them demanding that we teach their foolish superstitions as science in schools. The best thing humanity could do is rid ourselves of these stone age beliefs.

Answer 2

You are confused. Freedom of religion just means that the GOVERNMENT cannot push a specific religion, in or out. They have every right to protest, or do any legal thing they wish to oppose the mosque, just like they have the right to build the mosque. It goes both ways. If you would silence them, then you are the one who would be against their rights (freedom of speech). Freedom of religion is NOT a belief system. It is a right. There is a huge difference. When people force everyone to accept all religions, they have turned that right into a way to steal other people's rights. It's that simple. It's not being against "freedom of religion" even if they want to block every mosque in the United States of America. They have the right to oppose it anyway they choose if they do it legally. Government has no right to stop them, or to stop the mosque. That's the freedom we have. You have the right to speak up and say that you find their actions contemptible. I have the right to answer you.

Answer 3

There should be freedom of ALL religions. Like any other freedom, it requires responsibility. Killing people of different beliefs is not responsible. Government needs to be influenced by the people who have a moral foundation in religion. Without that, the devil has an open door to create caos.

The idea of freedom FROM religion is as absurd as saying people should have the freedom from co-existing with other people.

Every religion has nut jobs in it. Islam just happens to have a greater quantity. Standing up to those that want to kill us because we don't worship allah is a duty we must carry out with strength.

Answer 4

Freedom OF religion means that every individual has their own right to their own beliefs with no government interference.

Freedom FROM religion (i.e., the supposed "wall of separation between church and state") is virtually an impossibility. That is, there is no way to expect government to be "neutral" on matters of religion. The government has to either ackowledge a religion or it doesn't ackowledge a religion, but even in the latter case if the government were not acknowleging any religion, that would put the government in an agnostic posture, which still isn't "neutral."

I believe that when Jefferson and Madison talked about "separation of church and state," they meant that the INSTITUTION of the government and the INSTITUTION of organized religion, churches, must be kept FUNCTIONALLY separate. Churches cannot have, in any way, the power to govern society. Laws which affect all of us cannot be made by any church. Laws have to be made by the popularly elected legislature, which is to have no official religion and is open to all individuals no matter what their religious beliefs. That is all that the "separation" phrase means to me.

What I just said does NOT mean that a public school teacher cannot lead a voluntary prayer in the classroom. It does NOT mean that there may not be a creche on the City Hall.

Answer 5

Freedom of religion = all religions

I believe that Western culure was heavily influenced by Christian ideals, especially with respect to human freedom and dignity, so you can not intellectually distinguish the two, as a pointof origination....but the government can not force any group to worship or conform to a religion.

Freedom of all religions is necessary for our civil liberties, without which we cease being the united States of America.

Answer 6

I believe in freedom of religion, I also believe in freedom from religion if that's your choice: operative word here being choice!!. If a particular religion decides it wants to start killing and beheading and torturing and bombing and forcefully converting people than that religion needs to be dealt with, to whatever, I'll say that again, whatever!! degree is necessary to make it stop.

Answer 7

I'm a Muslim..and Islam tells us to believe in freedom of all religions..so i do..and i think that everyone should choose his own path

Answer 8

I believe in freedom FROM religion.

Answer 9

Freedom of all religion, of course, as long as no harm is done.

However, the moment a church starts being active in politics, they should immediately lose the tax exempt status.

AND if a church can be prooven that they have done harm, they should lose the right to exist as a church.

Answer 10

I believe in freedom of religion so long as you don't blow up innocent people in defense of your religion. If that's what you call "freedom of religion" then don't expect any sympathy, understanding, or mercy!