Religious Freedom in the United States
Religious freedom looks differently in all different parts of the world. As a result, there are various ways in which one can view these freedoms. Democracy plays a huge role in the formation of religious rights in the United States. It not only gives individual rights, but it also protects and opens doors for groups whose beliefs are in harmony with each other. In fact, the U.S. is classified as one of the most “pluralistic countries in the world”(Smith). In simple terms, religious freedom is the ability one has in believing what he wants without being “interrupted” by the government. America has fought and struggled with this social issue from the very beginning of its foundation. In the seventeenth century British
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Within every religion, there are corrupt and false teachings. Not only does this harm what truth is but it makes it difficult for a religion to stand as one. Especially within the Christian body, people are standing for views that should never infiltrate their religion. There are so many different mindsets and ideas that it make it nearly impossible for the government to place a law in which will please everyone. As stated by Eoin Daly, “ The Puritans, who generally practised a weak separation of church and state in the New England colonies, were ‘the heirs of the theology of religious liberty taught by European Calvinists’ … Evangelical Protestants believed that liberty of conscience required a more complete separation of church and state, rejecting benevolent as well as repressive governmental intervention in religion”(Daly). This quote emphasizes how this issue was also something that took place during the beginning of America. The Puritans had a different practice when it came to the separation of church and state. These different teachings and concepts have and will always be a major part in the molding of religion and