Its you talking bullcrap - XXL size. Freedom of religion necessarily also means freedom from religion for those not interested. Else it would be religious dictatorship that enforces religion even on people not wanting to have something to do with it.
Your freedom ends where you start damaging mine. So do your religion, if you want that, but in a way that others must not be bothered by it. Keep your religion to thyself.
You just illustrated the bigotry that religious people time and again show: a heavy bias to claim freedom for religion, but not caring for the right of others to be free from religion.
BTW, all three countries have a wider legal context that limits your freedoms. If you claim your religion's freedom is to rip the heart out of other people and sacrifice it to your deity, you will nevertheless get locked in a psychiatry for lunacy, or thrown into jail for murder. Religion does give you immunity from the simple fact that your freedoms end where you start to damage the freedom of others.
I also have a right to play my TV or radio. But if I pump up the volume too much, sooner or later relationships with neighbours detoriate, and sooner or later the police will appear on my doorstep.
You ARE free to be religious. Like you are free to walk around fully naked - in the privacy of your own private sphere where nobody must see your nakedness. I you walk naked in the public city center, you will get into trouble soon.
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Last edited by Skybird; 04-09-13 at 05:38 PM.
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