2007-12-31 10:38:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They may have the right to be there, but I'd make sure the town committee was headed by like-thinking rational people that would tell them to take a flying leap.
2007-12-31 10:49:51 · update #1
You are going to have to find an atheistic country that does not allow freedom of religion.
I believe that the closest country today like this is Communist China.
The secular and atheistic Soviet Union would have been a perfect place for your atheistic city but, fortunately, it is no more.
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
With love in Christ.
2008-01-08 07:04:15 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could move to antartica it might be a good idea...
2007-12-31 18:47:04 · answer #2 · answered by Justin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That would be discrimination and unconstitutional. A church has just as much right to be there as anything else.
2007-12-31 18:45:51 · answer #3 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not certain but Las Vegas? maybe any other big city like that... U.S. is very uncommon but around the world is in need... missionary?
2007-12-31 18:44:45 · answer #4 · answered by jesus freak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋