Religious Freedom - (Definition for Human Rights enforcement)
7 April 2003
Issue 3
{HRI 20030407-3-V1.0}
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Religious Freedom is
freedom from religious enforcement,
freedom from enforcement of religion,
freedom from enforcement of a religion.
Religious Freedom is
freedom from having to profess religious ideas, and
freedom from having to participate in or perform
religious actions.
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Religious Freedom is NOT "Freedom because of Religion" or more
precisely, it is not
procuring "freedom" to engage in reprehensible actions and to
promote harmful ideas and to instigate or inflict harm, also not
on consenting persons,
by means of labeling it to be religion, or a religion, or
by acting within or under the cloak of, or in the name of
a religion or a religious organization.
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Religious Freedom is NOT the "freedom" to use religion, religious
doctrine or religious ideas, and religious organizations, in order
to hate, exclude, prosecute, harm, punish, blackmail, extort, or
to otherwise break the will, or sense of decency, or sense of
beauty, of others
- especially including doing such things to the members
within that religious organization or group itself - or
to otherwise dominate people by making them socially or
financially dependent on a religious organization,
to prevent or thwart or discourage people
from using government or public services, such as civil
and legal institutions and educational and cultural
facilities, and from informing the free press and media
- all institutions, that, in a free country in which you
should be living by now or soon, are specifically
created after long experience and centuries of suffering
and hard work, and are maintained for citizens to go to
and use in order to be protected and informed, in order
to ensure their freedom and well-being and to prevent
them from being manipulated and dominated, and denied
vital knowledge - or
to demand or imply or order any such actions to be done or
enforced, or omitted or hindered or denied, in the name of
religion or a religion.
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Religious Freedom is NOT the "freedom" to use religion, religious
doctrine or religious ideas, and religious organizations, in order
to prevent or hinder others from informing themselves - and also
staying informed -
fully about that religion and its practices, and about its
members and about its management and its managers and its
idol(s),
including all hidden facts and all hidden activities,
and
including all financial dealings and sources of
income, and all assets and all spending, of its main
religious organization, and of its affiliated or
front organizations as well,
- a religious organization being
neither a commercial organization,
nor a military organization,
nor a law-enforcement organization,
nor a public relations firm,
nor a law firm,
nor a covert intelligence activity -
nor is it the "freedom" to use religion, religious doctrine or
religious ideas, and religious organizations
to hinder or prevent people of a religion, from being informed,
and from getting non-manipulative, extensive information
about the practices, the members, the ideas, the history
and the management and the managers and the idol(s) of any
other religions.
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Religious Freedom is NOT the "freedom" to use religion in order
to establish and enforce
social, economic, medical, technical, financial,
scientific, political or religious monopolies, nor to
forbid locations or to hide knowledge, or
to establish and by consequence command
a military-type, or secret-police-type, or intelligence-
type, or political-police-type organization or group of
individuals, or
other coercive, or secret, or extorting, or blackmailing,
or covering-up-criminals, or hiding-criminals type of
organization or group of individuals,
neither within a religious organization, nor because of, or in
the name of a religion.
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Religious Freedom IS the freedom from enforcement of a religion,
of religious ideas, religious customs and religious practices
on you and others,
so that you may choose your own religious activity, conviction and
preferences, and
to what extent and for how long and under what conditions you
want to participate in these,
based on your and others' fully informed decision and with as much
freedom and awareness as is possible for you and others in our
current society.
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After all, any religion and any religious activity should be a joyful
and life-enhancing experience for everyone.
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Koos Nolst Trenite "Cause Trinity"
human rights philosopher and poet
'God gave Solomon wisdom
and very great insight,
and a breadth of understanding
as measureless
as the sand on the seashore.'
1 Kings 4:29
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References:
- 'Definition Of Religion - (for Human Rights enforcement)'
(7 Apr 2003 - Issue 2) {HRI 20030407-2-V1.0}
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3b6f518d.0304070916.57d8346%40posting.google.com&output=gplain
- 'Definitions Of 'Political' And 'Religious' Agenda' (7 Apr 2003)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3b6f518d.0304070143.78625ab9%40posting.google.com&output=gplain
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Copyright 2003, 2005 by Koos Nolst Trenite - human rights philosopher
and poet
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