What does Religious Liberty mean to you?

[Taken]

You seem to be avoiding the elephant. How many Catholics on the supreme court? What I'm trying to get at is the historically proven antipathy the Vatican has toward religious freedom, its profound impact on American society, protestantism's forgetfulness of history, and the advice determination by Rome to create an American catholic theocracy.

Well aware of the gentle giant Elephant…and the donkey, stubborn jackass…and even Gods reference to stubborn, stiffnecked men, and difference between saying for others but excusing oneself from the same criteria.

No clue how many “Catholics” are seated on the SCOTUS.

Catholics, Protestants…each have protocols for “spreading” their own brand of religious beliefs…Churches that Invite strangers … and “missionaries” that travel about.

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[Brakelite]

Religion just forms bondage

“26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. ”
James 1:26-27 KJV

Religion just forms bondage

I think we need to be careful what we mean by the term religion. When I discuss religion in the terms of religious liberty, I' mean it in the context of everyone's personal choice... whether it be Christian, in all its myriad forms, or Buddhist, Islam, Hindu, Judaism, or even animism and ancestor worship. All should be free to adopt and accept whatever, so long as they don't impinge on the freedoms and rights of others.
And yes. Some of those bring people into bondage to spirits and doctrines of devils. But God leaves us free to choose even those. We need however to acknowledge there will be consequences to our wrong choices.

 

[Brakelite]

No. For myself it must be, It must be in spirit and truth. Otherwise we are given Jesus the bird and saying forget what he says… it’s faith that’s make us right with Yahweh.

“And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭11‬:‭6‬ ‭ESV‬‬

I don’t see anything but religious burden, from my understanding concerning supporting “religious liberty” cause it doesn’t exist, unless one says it does.

That’s just me though and I tend to hate religion. And believed; Yahweh, sent his Son who fulfilled the law… so we aren’t under law when in spirit… not that we were any other law in the first place cause the Jewish people existed long before the Word was sent. And the Word fulfilled the Law in Christ who puts that old religion to death.

“For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭2‬:‭14‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭22‬-‭23‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.””
‭‭John‬ ‭4‬:‭21‬-‭24‬ ‭ESV‬‬


But I digress, just more thoughts, of course they may be counter to your narrative; all the best! Just wanted to share; you had no thoughts on my last response?

Yet Jesus did not force or coerce the Samaritan woman into Jewish worship. He merely gave her a better understanding of the options she had.

 

[MatthewG]

I'm happy just to know of those who seek out for God in spirit and in truth. Be it from any part of a "religion." But I believe their is freedom from religious bondage, and that was what Jesus came to set people free from, including their sins. I do not know how else to respond other than I forgot about the "pure religion" aspect, but that would be spiritual wouldn't it? Because without the Spirit there is no ability to love like Yahavah, loves. That is just some of my reasonings, concerning your question "are you not allowed to worship God anyway, you want?" Not faithlessly, it has to be a profession that comes from the heart, and the mouth are conjoined together in "homolego" or as one in unison, @Brakelite. Which faith, pleases God. And feeding widows and feeding orphans, doing that without love means nothing. According to Paul. Anything that is done for vain glory amounts up to nothing, compared to "loving Yahavah first, and loving your neighbor as yourself." That is where spiritual treasures in heaven are stored away for a later time, while living here on earth and making the sacrifice to pick up ones own cross. Again just some of my reasonings concerning the topic, and the question you had asked previously.

 

[Brakelite]

The state has no right nor inspired holy Spirit led mandate to interpret doctrine, define truth, or enforce it. In the dark ages, one single global institution, the papacy, asserted its presumptuous authority to define what is truth. The kings and queens of the world accepted the spiritual authority of the church, and embraced their role in upholding and enforcing that church's definitions of what constituted truth. The church defined what was heretical, and the state embraced God's authority to carry out punishment for dissent. Since when did the state gain the expertise, inspiration, and knowledge to determine which religion is correct and what doctrines should be taught and enforced by civil authority?
Revelation 13 reveals a nation that through the democratic principles of government, forms an image to the above medieval church/state union. There must of necessity be some very serious deception involved, considering the history of the papacy, and its more recent good standing in the nation that is even now well advanced along the road toward religious tyranny. Yes, I'm talking about the United States, with its present burgeoning relationship between church and state that seeks to counter the left's narrative by legislating righteousness through law, a counterfeit to the personal experience of righteousness by faith.
I have no issues with the state enforcing those laws pertaining to the second table of the law. But Revelation 13 describes legislation that pertains to the first table... worship.
That said legislation becomes global, and ends with a death sentence, tells us that the US is the only democratic nation with the power and global influences necessary to accomplish such a feat.