Do you think that Obama moving from "freedom of religion" to "freedom of worship" as some contend is troubling or not?

Ashley Samelson, International Programs Director for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty says "Any person of faith knows that religious exercise is about a lot more than freedom of worship. It's about the right to dress according to one's religious dictates, to preach openly, to evangelize, to engage in the public square. Everyone knows that religious Jews keep kosher, religious Quakers don't go to war, and religious Muslim women wear headscarves-yet "freedom of worship" would protect none of these acts of faith.

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In God We Trust I have a slight problem with this because down the road this tiny change could be a stepping stone for a one world religion. Utopian societies never work. They look good on paper but underneath millions of people suffer.

Some would say this is only one word and is just a minute change but in twenty years another leader may use this to push an agenda that people of faith do not support. The problem with socialism and communism is that to set it up and keep it running millions of people will die meaninglessly. If one world religion is the goal of the people “behind the White House” then Christians, Moslems, Buddhist and Hindu’s need to realize that their religious individuality could be at stake.

I don't know, Direct Male. If I trusted our current politicians, I might think it was an innocent change in choice of words. I've heard people talk about how lucky we are to live in a country where we can worship as we please.

That is nothing new. At the same time, this could be a deliberate attempt to alter our concept of our religious freedom from the right of full expression of religion to freedom to worship inside a church and nothing else. We saw what was done with Thomas Jefferson's comment about separation of church and state.

That is a term not found anywhere in our constitution. Yet those who want to limit religious freedom use it often. Already members of this forum have stated that they think religious expression should be limited to inside our homes or inside churches.

Perhaps Obama's new language would lend the impression that religious freedom in this country is actually limited to just that.....freedom of religious expression inside our homes or churches.

I am ALWAYS suspicious of word changes. While some will say, "It's only semantics," semantics is language, which is how we write our laws. Changing definitions is the usual way that one later introduces new laws criminalizing what we've a right to be doing.

1 If it only allows you to have the freedom on a Sunday or Sabbath...and not the rest of the week...it is missing being allowed to talk/write about your beliefs.

If it only allows you to have the freedom on a Sunday or Sabbath...and not the rest of the week...it is missing being allowed to talk/write about your beliefs.

2 Wow! That is scary. Obama is a lawyer and he knows the power of changing an expression like that.

This could be setting us up for anything. He could take away churches' non-profit status (and non-taxable status). He could take away the right of people to observe religious holidays.

And he could be setting the country up for Islam where they have to worship 5 times a day everyday! Obama is sending some kind of signal out there! .

Wow! That is scary. Obama is a lawyer and he knows the power of changing an expression like that.

This could be setting us up for anything. He could take away churches' non-profit status (and non-taxable status). He could take away the right of people to observe religious holidays.

And he could be setting the country up for Islam where they have to worship 5 times a day everyday! Obama is sending some kind of signal out there!

" "why is freedom of religion important" (12 answers).

What is the history of freedom of religion.

Why is freedom of religion important" (12 answers).

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.