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BrikHaus81
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The Persecution Season is Heating Up
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Date created
29-Nov-2006, 3:45 PM
Originally posted by: JediSage
Originally posted by: BrikHaus81

Freedom of religion in this country is also freedom from the religion of others.


You are sorely misinformed. Can you provide constructionist language that supports your point?


OK, well I don't really know what "constructionist language" is, and I'm not going to bother debating this to death with people who would rather nitpick my argument than provide rebuttal arguments, so I'll just provide a link to what I think is an interesting article about freedom of vs. freedom from religion. It contradicts some points I tried to make earlier and back up some as well.

http://atheism.about.com/od/churchstatemyths/a/freedomfrom.htm

If you don't want to read the whole thing, I think this paragraph sums up the argument nicely: "What freedom from religion does mean, however, is the freedom from the rules and dogmas of other people’s religious beliefs so that we can be free to follow the demands of our own conscience, whether they take a religious form or not. Thus, we have both freedom of religion and freedom from religion because they are two sides of the same coin."