What Freedom of Religion?

What freedom of religion? What are all these blase, and meaningless words about freedom of religion. Just where is this freedom of religion. Mine does not exist.

All efforts to live as I truly believe have a been thwarted by and through a contorted system of rules, regulations and legal plunder. No, freedom of religion does not exist on this planet. It is ghost of the past, a spectre that haunts the recesses of my soul always, and surely the souls of all who have yet a spark of that love of liberty that once flamed within the souls of our ancestors. Then what of all this talk of freedom of religion? Where is this thing they speak of? What have I missed?

Is it that I may think and believe what I want? Since when is belief much important without external manifestation?

Is it that I may attend a church of my choice? If so, then where went the church of my choice?

If our wealth is plundered by the state for it own irreligious purposes, we have no freedom of religion!

If we are prevented from gathering of the land and living as we choose, we have no freedom of religion!

If we are prevented from engaging in healing practices according to our own convictions, we have no freedom of religion!

If our children are forced to attend a public school and indoctrinated in teachings contrary to our own convictions, we have not freedom of religion.

The etymology of the word religion is the same as the word legal. It is in fact the civil law that is the foundation of religion.

We have no freedom of religion left in the US, as with most other places. We are subject to a state religion that is antithetical to any true religion.

How I think, yes. Then how I put that thinking into practice,yes. That is part of my religion. Philosophical beliefs are nice but what I say and do, and the freedom to do it, and the opportunity to use the fruits of my labor accordingly, and a safe place to do it, this is the substance of my religion.

A few generations ago, freedom of religion was also liberty in law. Freedom of conscience implied the practice that required that liberty. Now the meanings have been changed to accommodate the lie.

"Freedom of belief" is a phrase as empty and meaningless as is the government and society that pretend something that no longer exists.

But the books and media say it is so.

And the people believe it.

And the true religion is lost.