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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Most of us will never have to die for our convictions. The question of whether we would be strong enough to stand up to a tyranny that would kill us for believing what we do never really enters our minds. But let me pose the question.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Rather than using the third universe—the one we all share—to dominate others and impose our own sense of what is true and correct, what if we chose instead to use it as a neutral, sacred space where we meet and exchange ideas and viewpoints with dignity, respect and generosity?
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
It is then up to the rest of us, the majority of people, the decent folk who choose to live in harmony with our fellow human beings, regardless of their creed, to stop the rhetoric from going any further.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
I was saddened and outraged to learn of the depraved act of vandalism that left 170 Jewish gravestones toppled in Missouri’s Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
To discriminate against a minority religion is to discriminate against any and all religion. Think about it for a moment—every religion is a minority religion somewhere.
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Freedom of religion is under attack in our country, where more so than any other it should be protected. I am appalled.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
I don’t need to know much about the guy who threatened Scientologists in a recent post on Facebook.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
When it comes to understanding the religious beliefs of others, there is often some inherent unwillingness to meet the other halfway with a true desire to comprehend that person’s deeply-held convictions.
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For an in-your-face discussion of the effects of religious extremism and intolerance, log in to the series of talks given in October 2016 by sociologist Massimo Introvigne to Ukrainian scientists, lawyers and journalists at the Scientific Research Institute in Odessa. Dr.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
“Few issues in American public life engender more controversy than religion and public education,” says Americans United for Separation of Church and State. In the context of the 1960s, that meant the national uproar over Bible study and recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in public schools.
