Maggie's Farm

"Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom.…"

Whittaker Chambers: Communist and Soviet spy - until he came in from the cold.

Freedom can be measured by the separation of church and state. States run by theocracies have no such freedom as we know it.

Without the soul, there is no body, thus, no need for worrying about freedom.

From Dr. Bob:

"...the seat of moral judgment resides in what the individual believes, rather than what the individual does."

Moral judgement aside as a most tiresome pastime in which to engage, how does one separate fully belief and action? I cannot see into a man's mind; but I can see what a man does. If I see him doing good things and find out later that he is a humanist, do his deeds suddenly become inconsequential?

It is the secular foundation of our country that allows freedom of religion. Those who crack and snap their whips of judgement in the name of their god would do well to pause and note that our Founding Fathers wanted to avoid just that kind of 'what an individual does' based purely on his 'beliefs'.
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