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    Title “In God We Trust: Freedom Religion in Public Schools” This title was chosen to examine and understand the extent in which teachers and students can express their beliefs, and the extent to which schools allow religion to be tolerated. I chose the title “In God We Trust” because it is the official motto of the United States, yet it directly correlate’s with the controversy of separation of church and state. As an American citizen we have the right to freedom of religion, but the…

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    Chapter Four, Legal Religion, talks about how religion freedoms are handled under the law. Sullivan expresses that religious ideas are free to be thought, however when put into practice, religious beliefs can be limited by the government. She talks about the difficulties presented by the American Legal system, for example the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which claim to protect varying religious beliefs, but in turn discriminate against religions not of the unsaid Protestant majority.…

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    Secularism and Freedom of Religion Amongst the many religions of our society, there is a multitude of people who do not adhere to a specific religion. These people have the option of not believing in any religion, or following the modern beliefs of education and politics. Although the two terms seem strikingly similar, secularism and freedom of religion have entirely different meanings. While freedom of religion can mean not following or opposing any religion, secularism specifically means to…

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    Freedom of Religion The First Amendment was written in 1791 by James Madison who was influenced by Thomas Jefferson. The first part of the First Amendment says, “Congress should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” There are two parts to this first part of the First Amendment. The first part of this is saying, Congress is not allowed to make an established religion for America. The government was not allowed to make a religion that…

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    Freedom of Religion has been a topic of great debate in America, beginning with the settlers seeking religious freedom. Away from the British governments grasp in the New World the colonists were free to worship as they chose. In 1720 there was a decline in spirituality and the religious community was beginning to grow in diversity. Fifty years later, in 1770 the First Great Awakening occurred, opening discussion between the different religious sects. Religion reawakened and freedom of religion…

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    What is the meaning of Freedom of Religion? Freedom of Religion has always means the freedom to practice one's religion but now on the upcoming years it means something different, it now means freedom to restrict services against hate, denigate, despise, or oppress others religions. So should religion be kept quiet because the person next to you has different beliefs or should someone be able to speak about their religion without getting the hate? Freedom of religion is the first amendment, this…

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    right to practice his or her own religion or no religion at all. There seems to be a widespread confusion today about what "separation of church and state" means. People think this concept is made to keep the religion out of politics when, in fact, it was put in place to ensure the government would not dictate the faith of the nation. Religious freedom, however, goes beyond constitutional rights because one's religion is extremely personal. Although Freedom of Religion prevents the government or…

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    reasons for freedom of religion still to this day. Christianity was once banned from the Roman empire. When Constantine became the Roman Emperor he legalized Christianity making it okay for people to practice the religion. While doing so, he also allowed people to practice the religion of their choice. Constantine had an impact on Christianity for that reason. However, he also had a substantial amount of impact on religion as a whole due to the fact that we are able to practice whatever religion…

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    You have said to me that you are unable to believe in any organized religion because doing so would violates your “freedom to choose what to believe”. There are two ways in which I might attempt to disagree with this claim. One option is to try to show that organized religions do not limit your freedom to choose what to believe. I will not take this route, however, because I agree that organized religions do this. As we will see, this is not a problem for me. I would like to disagree with your…

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    right to bear arms, and the freedom of religion. We are becoming a society where one thing is absolutely right and anyone who thinks different is condemned a homophobe, racist, extremist, or terrorist. Our Reconstructionist officials (liberals/government activists)…

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