religious rights of soldiers – including evangelical Christian service members who are facing growing hostility towards their religion … including an Air Force officer who was told to remove a Bible from his desk because it might give the impression he was endorsing a religion…
months into an application process that was supposed to last no more than 270 days, Wan told Joseph:
You cannot force your religion … Wan told Joseph: "When you conduct religious activities, meanwhile you have to respect other people's beliefs, other people's religion…
"The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. … Progressive elites in academia and government insist that religion has never contributed anything positive to society and are doing … The foremost concern was not freedom from religion, it was a legally and culturally protected sphere within which religion can perform…
“There is a very wide effort coming out of the administration that seeks to stamp out freedom of expressions -- particularly religion … We’re not talking about a specific religion. I don’t understand how much more generic we can be.”…
The first of these freedoms was and is freedom of religion -- “Congress shall make no law, respecting an establishment of religion. … So they not only barred the government from choosing one over another but even from interfering with religion in practice. … And from Madison we remember that first among these rights is the freedom of religion.…
Once free enterprise is broken to the saddle of the state, I can throttle freedom of speech, religion and association, using some of … through radical redefinition, I can unleash the power of the state against all those “religious” folks who cling to their, well, religion…
“Leaders at all levels must balance Constitutional protections for an individual’s free exercise of religion or other personal beliefs … and its prohibition against governmental establishment of religion,” wrote Chief of Staff Gen. … “As one general so aptly put it – they expect us to check our religion in at the door – don’t bring that here,” Lee said.…
the time of Jesus and which have not been repeated for centuries, is a reminder that violent and murderous acts in the name of religion … The Religion of Peace website helps us put things in perspective:
· More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all…
Does that mean Islam is inherently a religion of terrible violence? … Islam is not a religion like Christianity or Judaism, Wilders told me in a 2009 interview. … Take the Koran's famous injunction (2:256) that "there be no compulsion in religion."…
The common revisionist narrative today places faith and matters of religion on the periphery of history—an enduring lunatic fringe … While revolutionary France defined itself by its hostility to religion, Americans had no difficulty embracing the values of the Enlightenment…
The Fourth of July is the highest of the holy days of America's
civil religion. … Bellah, the sociologist, christened "The American Civil
Religion" a half century ago, inspired by John F. … and of
no faith to enjoy what George Mason described as "the fullest Toleration
in the Exercise of Religion."…
