Religious Freedom - (Definition for Human Rights enforcement)
7 April 2003
Issue 3
{HRI 20030407-3-V1.1}
(Version 1.1
on 7 Aug 2007)
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Religious Freedom is
freedom from religious enforcement,
freedom from enforcement of religion,
freedom from enforcement of a religion.
Religious Freedom is
freedom from having to profess religious ideas, and
freedom from having to perform or participate in
religious actions or to follow religious customs.
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Religious Freedom is NOT "Freedoms taken, because of Religion" or more
precisely, it is not
procuring "freedom" to engage in reprehensible (bad) actions and
to promote harmful ideas and to instigate or inflict harm, also
not on consenting persons,
by means of labeling it to be religion, or a religion, or
by acting within or under the cloak of, or in the name of
a religion or a religious organization.
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Religious Freedom is NOT the "freedom" to use religion, religious
doctrine or religious ideas, and religious organizations, in order
to hate, exclude, prosecute, harm, punish, blackmail, extort, or
to otherwise break the will, or the sense of decency, or the
sense of beauty, of others
- including especially, to do such things to the members
themselves, within that religious organization or group -
or
to otherwise dominate people by making them socially or
financially dependent on a religious organization, and further,
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Religious Freedom is NOT the "freedom" to use religion, religious
doctrine or religious ideas, and religious organizations, in order
to prevent or thwart or discourage people from using government
or public services,
such as civil and legal institutions and educational and
cultural facilities, nor
to prevent or thwart or discourage people from informing the
free press and media
- which all are institutions, that,
in a free country in which you should be living by
now or soon,
are specifically created after long experience and
centuries of suffering and hard work, and
are maintained for citizens to go to and use
in order to be protected and informed,
in order to ensure their freedom and well-being
and to prevent them from being manipulated and
dominated, and denied vital knowledge - or
to demand or imply or order any such actions to be done or
enforced, or omitted or hindered or denied, in the name of
religion or a religion.
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Religious Freedom is NOT the "freedom" to use religion, religious
doctrine or religious ideas, and religious organizations, in order
to prevent or hinder others from informing themselves - and also
from staying informed -
fully about that religion and its practices, and about its
members and about its management and its managers and its
idol(s),
including all hidden facts and all hidden activities,
and
including all financial dealings and sources of
income, and all assets and all spending,
of its main religious organization, and of its affiliated
or front organizations as well,
- a religious organization being
neither a commercial organization,
nor a military organization,
nor a law-enforcement organization,
nor a public relations firm,
nor a law firm,
nor a covert intelligence activity -
nor is Religious Freedom, the "freedom" to use religion, religious
doctrine or religious ideas, and religious organizations in order to
to prevent or hinder the people of a religion, in being informed
about and getting non-manipulative, extensive information about
any OTHER religions,
about the practices, the members, the ideas, the history
and the management and the managers and the idol(s) of any
OTHER religions.
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Religious Freedom is NOT the "freedom" to use religion in order
to establish and enforce
social, economic, medical, technical, financial,
scientific, political or religious monopolies,
nor to forbid the visiting of locations, or to hide
knowledge, or
to establish and by consequence command
a military-type, or secret-police-type, or intelligence-
type, or political-police-type organization or group of
individuals, or any
other coercive, or secret, or extorting, or blackmailing,
or covering-up-criminals, or hiding-criminals type of
organization or group of individuals,
neither within a religious organization, nor because of, or in
the name of a religion.
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Religious Freedom IS the freedom FROM enforcement of a religion,
of religious ideas, of religious customs and of religious
practices, on you and on others,
so that you may choose your own religious activity, conviction and
preferences, and so you may choose
to what extent and for how long and under what conditions you
want to participate in any religious customs or practices,
based on your and others' fully informed decision, with as much
freedom and awareness as is possible for you and others, being in
our current society.
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After all, any religion and any religious activity should be a joyful
and life-enhancing experience for everyone.
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Koos Nolst Trenite 'Cause Trinity'
human rights philosopher and poet
'God gave Solomon wisdom
and very great insight,
and a breadth of understanding
as measureless
as the sand on the seashore.'
1 Kings 4:29
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{HRI 20060924-V3.2}
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{HRI 20060601-V3.1}
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'Religious Freedom - (Definition for Human Rights enforcement)'
{HRI 20030407-3-V1.0.1} [the previous version]
(7 April 2003 - Issue 3 - Version 1.0.1 on 6 Oct 2006)
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{HRI 20030407-V1.0}
(7 April 2003)
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{HRI 20040108-V1.0.1}
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{HRI 20020819-V2.2.3}
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{HRI 20050527-V3.5.2}
(27 May 2005 - Version 3.5.2 on 16 Jul 2006)
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