People are being killed all over the world in the name of one religion. Are we going to keep pretending this religion's beliefs isn't at odds with our own written law?
If I owned a newspaper it's headline Saturday morning would have read 'Freedom of Religion' with a large picture of all the dead French in the road.
They are not allowing us freedom from their religion, and thus, do not belong in our countries that share this ideal.
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[–] iamjanesleftnipple 0 points 17 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago
That's exactly what "Freedom from Religion" means: Not having religion forced upon you by the government.
[–] fuck_communism 7 points 2 points 9 points (+9|-7) ago
The phrase "freedom from religion" does not appear anywhere in the Bill of Rights, therefore it has no legal or universal meaning, and means only what the person using it says. It is as definitive as "more" or "less."
[–] iamjanesleftnipple 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
It also doesn't say "Freedom of Religion". But really what you're doing is playing semantics. The Bill of Rights states that the state shall establish no religion, which translates to no religion being forced onto the people that they do not freely elect to follow themselves (a point you already made in your comment in regards to England). Thus it is by default both freedom of religion (worship how you want to worship so long as it doesn't harm anyone else) and freedom from religion ( you won't be forced to have a religion).