The Hudson Institute advocates religious freedom as a component of U.S. foreign policy and believes in freedom to communicate those freedoms. The group mentions how "pivotal" it is to society, and how Thomas Jefferson and America's founders found it important enough to be dubbed the "first freedom." I like how they've chosen to define religious freedom:
"Religious freedom has two dimensions. It belongs to individuals and also to religious groups. It includes a person's right to walk down the street wearing a cross, a yarmulke or a headscarf, or not to do so, and to express and live out one's beliefs in society. It also includes the rights of groups to worship God as they wish in community, to run schools, hospitals and other institutions, to publish and possess sacred literature, and order their internal affairs."
Let's count our blessings today-- Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I think when you have something, you sometimes don't realize it or forget to acknowledge it so I think it's a good idea to gives thanks for the amount of religious freedom we have in this country.
ReplyDeleteGreat definition of religious freedom! He definitely sums it up well, without merely skimming the surface. Thanks for the reminder to be thankful for something I am apt to only notice when it is endangered.
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