Banning Religions Should Not Be Allowed What would you say if I told you that the government had the right to outlaw your religion and the government got to choose what you believed in? In some people's lives, that’s the exact case. All over the America people are persecuted for practicing and believing in certain religions. A religion should not be able to be banned by the governments. By defining the controversies that surround the religion and government , by refuting those who oppose the argument that people should not have a free choice of religion, and by presenting strong arguments and documented evidence, it will be obvious and the American public will be persuaded that religion should not be banned by the governments, but
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Envision being a representative and one is suddenly fired for having confidence in a religion. For those that don't practice religion, then envision the inverse, being fired for not having a religion. This happened to an Atlanta fire chief by the name of Kevin Cochran. Cochran had been fired for a book he wrote for a men’s Bible study group at his Baptist church (Starnes, Todd). Religious discrimination is too well known. People discriminate every day, no matter the religion. The same thing happened to a Muslim women for her hijab, a scarf worn by Muslim women. She was told that she violated the “look” policy at her job. She was also told that it would affect people's experiences at the cafe (Greenwald, Judy). In the event that we gave the right to discriminate because of a law banning a religion, it would make matters worse. On a larger scale, some individuals are even compelled to move because of their belief. Some even beaten and killed. Consider the holocaust, outrageous proportions of people died as a result of their religious convictions. These deaths included all Jewish people, even if they were a defenseless infant who wasn’t old enough to decide their religion and their mothers were Jewish. This is the sort of catastrophic events that would come up if we banned
Envision being a representative and one is suddenly fired for having confidence in a religion. For those that don't practice religion, then envision the inverse, being fired for not having a religion. This happened to an Atlanta fire chief by the name of Kevin Cochran. Cochran had been fired for a book he wrote for a men’s Bible study group at his Baptist church (Starnes, Todd). Religious discrimination is too well known. People discriminate every day, no matter the religion. The same thing happened to a Muslim women for her hijab, a scarf worn by Muslim women. She was told that she violated the “look” policy at her job. She was also told that it would affect people's experiences at the cafe (Greenwald, Judy). In the event that we gave the right to discriminate because of a law banning a religion, it would make matters worse. On a larger scale, some individuals are even compelled to move because of their belief. Some even beaten and killed. Consider the holocaust, outrageous proportions of people died as a result of their religious convictions. These deaths included all Jewish people, even if they were a defenseless infant who wasn’t old enough to decide their religion and their mothers were Jewish. This is the sort of catastrophic events that would come up if we banned