Religious

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Religious
Equality In US

America has been named the "melting pot" of the world. It houses many
different cultures, nationalities, ideas and religions. There are Christians,
Jews, Catholics, Buddhists, Mormons, Hindus, Spiritualists, Jehovah’s
Witnesses, Islamics, plus many more. America is unique in that all these
religions are represented in a nation that is only 200 years old. And America
has upheld, throughout history, that the freedom and equality of religion is
extremely important in order for this nation to function as a free nation. The
foundations of America were set as a result of England’s persecution; more
specifically, England’s religious persecution. The colonists wanted to create
a nation that allowed people to be free. They desired to speak what they wanted
to speak, do what they wanted to do, and practice what they wanted to
practice... without the government watching their every move. Thus came
religious freedom. The First Amendment to the Constitution states that
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof," meaning that an American citizen
would be able to practice his or her religion without any intervention or
persecution from the government, be it Islam, Judism, Mormonism or Catholicism.
Yet, with religious freedom, comes important questions concerning its existence.
Is religious equality just as important as all the other freedoms... such as the
freedom of speech, the freedom of press, the freedom to assemble, and others as
well? The answer here is yes. If this nation truly stands for freedom, the
American government cannot say that its citizens have the right to speak freely,
write freely, or assemble freely, but then maintain an established national
religion. That would be contradictory, and would not make America any better off
than England, which it had separated from just years beforehand. Certainly, all
the freedoms are equal. On the other hand, unlike the other freedoms mentioned,
religious freedom addresses a different type of need. It addresses the concept
of personal fulfillment, or perhaps, self-realization. Religion attempts to give
answers to basic questions: From where did the world come? What is the meaning
of human life? Why do people die and what happens afterward? Why is there evil?
How should people behave? As a word religion is difficult to define, but as a
human experience it seems to be universal. The 20th-century German-born American
theologian,...

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