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janv 20, 2012

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The wole matter of religious freedom seems, to me at least, to involve the following pillars, without which religious freedom is endangered. These involve
•the right to profess whatever rekigious belief one wishes
•the right to express that belief by appropriate acts of worship, either privately or publicly, individually or as a corporate body
•the right to transmit those beliefs to one's children
•the right to propagate one's beliefs to others
•the right to change one's religion
Question how absolute are those rights? You do not have to go very far into the realm of history or of human thought to realise that some of them are necessarily limited. For instance, very few would ever acknowledge the right to engage in human sacrifice, cannibalism, or orgiastic rites–especially where children are involved. Similarly, when it comes to propagating one's views, the listeners have a right to expect honesty as to what you say; as we would say here in Britain, one has not right to deliver them a pig in a poke. Furthermore, what sounds OK when one is a powerless minority may involve one in practical difficulties if one should be in a position of temporal power.
Allied to that is how one interprets documents that are regularly invoked in the religious liberty debate. Many years ago I read an excellent article entitled "Separation of Church and State in American Law and History". Its author, Richard Bostan, was at the time(1996) a law student at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law in Canada. At great length he demonstrated that then current practce in the US in applying the First Amendment simply could not be justified when one took into account the background to that document. The Founding Fathers, he argued, must have understood what they put down in writing, thus their actions should be taken as normative in dealing with cases under it today.
On the question of the right of parents to educate their children in their religion, one factor has arisen that was relatively unknown in Biblical times, and has only become significant in the last 150-odd years. I refer to the rise of state education. At first I thought that one contributor to the periodical from which I cite Bostan's article was exaggerating when he declared thet public[state] education is inherently immoral; it was incapable of reform and must therefore be abandoned. Today I am convinced that the author of those centiments was more right than he thought. Unthinking secular and humanist ideologues try to pretend that you can divide life into "religious" and "secular" compartments. The modern state has almost claimed a monopoly on the education of children; some countries outlaw home schooling, and a few even outlaw all non-state education. This idolatry in educational thought has to be met with resistance, certainly informed criticism.

Posted by barry_gowland on 2012-03-25 18:17:56

La Liberté Religieuse

Les Adventistes croient que la liberté religieuse est un droit humain universel donné par Dieu, et ils œuvrent afin que la liberté d’expression et la pratique religieuse deviennent une réalité universelle. Les Adventistes prônant la liberté religieuse s’activent à promouvoir et à protéger la liberté religieuse par le truchement du département des Affaires Publiques et de la Liberté Religieuse. Ils sont les représentants des priorités de l’Eglise devant les dirigeants nationaux et devant les décideurs politiques mondiaux.

Zones de représentation:

Gouvernement des Etats-Unis à Washington D.C.

Nations Unies dans la ville de New York et à Genève

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