Freedom of Religion

False religion is to tickle the ears of the people while encouraging them in covetous practices and an appetite for the wages of unrighteousness degrades society paving the road to despotism. Plutarch and Polybius knew it and John the Baptist, Christ and the early Church preached it. The Christian conflict with Rome was their unwillingness to sign up with the Corban of the world which was making the word of God to none effect.

Freedom of Religion

Kelly Shackelford's defense of freedom of religion PragerU was valiant and maybe in good faith but fundamentally flawed. Instead of defending freedom of religion as he may have desired to do he has perpetuated the power and delusions of the lie people have already come to believe that just is not true.

Kelly Shackelford, president of First Liberty Cited, referencingThomas Paine’s Common Sense and the religious motivation of the Revolution. He defended the first amendment saying that it “wasn’t an accident” that it was the first freedom listed in the Bill of Rights — beginning with “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

The Daily Wire in support says Shackelford references historical examples of the "suppression of religious freedom", and how this effects all freedoms pointing to the closure of churches and the “control of all religious life” under Soviet rule, as well as religious limitations enforced under the Chinese communist regime."

They go on to say “The reason for such anti-religious sentiment, … is that religion “challenges the authority of the state more than any other freedom,” and that “people who adhere to a religion believe that there’s something higher than the state, and no repressive government can tolerate such a belief.”^[1]

While I sympathize with his view he has already lost the war. He should have read more about [David Crocket] and Heratio Bunt's argument against the rise of the welfare state. An attack on freedom of religion is not merely an attack on freedom or liberty of thought because religion is not just what you think. Religion from the beginning was not what you think or say but what you do and how you do it.^[2]

The truth is what pure religion challenges is the means by which the authority of the state expands it power… depends of the people upon the State and its covetous practices warned against by all the prophets and condemned by Jesus.

From Polybius to Plutarch that “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” The desire for those benefits which are the wages of unrighteousness spreads a strong delusion infecting the minds of the people until they inevitably degenerate into perfect savages.

Kelly Shackelford even quotes Alexis de Tocqueville who understood that when “When…men attack religious beliefs, they are following their emotions not their interests. Tyranny may be able to do without faith, but freedom cannot.”

The first attack on religion came not from tyrants but from word smiths. They simply changed what was the “duty” of religion to what you think about God. The Holy Spirit was replaced by emotional high of self-righteousness of vain rituals and rites rather than the humble self sacrificing of the righteousness of God exemplified in the life of Christ.

The real problem is not an attack on religion by government but the abandonment of what pure religion by the people. I am not talking about low attendance in what is posing as religions today. I am talking about the cognitive dissonance which came when people developed "an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force..."

Alexis de Tocqueville observed an flawed America that was far greater than what we aspire to accomplish today. In America we like the early Church there was little dependence upon government hand outs. No Christians would pray to men who called themselves benefactors but exercised authority one over the other for their free bread. Christians provided for the welfare of their community through faith, hope and charity and a daily ministration that rightly divided that bread from house to house.^[3]

If repentance is thinking differently then people who think they are religious need to ask when did God say it was okay to covet your neighbors goods through men who exercise authority one over the other. The quickest way to raise up a tyrant is to tell your government they have the right to take from your neighbor so you can have supposedly free health education and welfare at your neighbors' expense. And the only way to protect or restore liberty is to seek to provide those benefits of society through the perfect law of liberty by freewill offerings and charity like Christ commanded.

Footnotes

↑ https://www.conservativereview.com/prageru-you-cant-be-free-without-this-2649016030.html
↑ Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

Luke 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
↑ Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

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