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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Sep 8, 2015, 03:57 PM Sep 2015

Activities That Would Have To Be Allowed Under Religious Freedom.

Just think of some of the activities that would have to be allowed under "religious freedom" if you take that concept to its logical end.

Animal sacrifice, genital mutilation, child marriage, polygamy,polyandry, bloodletting, et al. There are a whole host of religious activities coming from various beliefs and sects. And who defines what is a valid religion.

We face a country in chaos. We can see how religious anarchy has worked in the Middle East, Africa and other parts of the world.

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Activities That Would Have To Be Allowed Under Religious Freedom. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Sep 2015 OP
Stoning is also big in the Bible Angry Dragon Sep 2015 #1
Folks are really, really confusing freedom of religion as defined by law, and "religious freedom". Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #2
I Am Not So Sure They ARE Confused. TheMastersNemesis Sep 2015 #4
Sigh. Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #5
A church cannot do any part of their religion treestar Sep 2015 #3
 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
4. I Am Not So Sure They ARE Confused.
Tue Sep 8, 2015, 04:09 PM
Sep 2015

It is more that they want what they want. In their mind ANYTHING they have to do that is publicly legal that they do not agree with is "persecuting" them and "interfering" with their conscience. Moslems do not believe in allowing any human or animal to appear in pictures or represented. That is why there is only geometric figures in their art an architecture. Would that mean ending cameras.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
3. A church cannot do any part of their religion
Tue Sep 8, 2015, 04:06 PM
Sep 2015

no matter how sincere, if it is otherwise illegal (and illegal for everyone). I remember the case on that and that the Rastafarians could not smoke marijuana (because it was illegal for everyone, though now there are places where it is).

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