RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

Religious liberty — arguably the kingpin of America’s greatness — though unique in the stream of world history, did not originate with our nation’s founding fathers.  Religious liberty is a concept that gives freedom of belief, and practice of that belief, to each individual and groups thereof, while allowing the belief’s value to be demonstrated in the free marketplace is, yes, older than the hills.  Religious liberty originated from the misty past of eternity with a God who created beings capable of free independent thought, choice and behaviors.  Religious liberty is a foundational reality of God’s government, carrying with it the responsibility of value judgments and the experiencing of the interim results and eventually end results of each belief, choice, behavior.  While most of the world governances have and do officially promote or socially encourage a specific belief system, America’s religious liberty allows it’s citizens to individually choose, practice and civilly promulgate the belief system of their choice while keeping the government and society from aiding or abetting as long as the liberty is conducted within the bounds of respect and respecting the same in others.  One belief system no trying to dominate over another. Though religious liberty carries with it no value judgments, the individual’s value judgments are demanded by the nature of reality.  Given its origin and uniqueness in the world, and human’s propensity to track selfish, domineering paths, it comes as no surprise that religious liberty continues to be hammered both without and within America.  Its continued viability in America rests in the vigilance of those who see its value.  Religious liberty is of divine origin and though it may not survive in America, thus this world, let us not be the ones to historically be counted slack in its promulgation and support or worse in its destruction.