• Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Freedom of worship shouldn’t really be a thing.

    Replace it with Freedom of Expression. It’ll cover that and so much more.

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      7 months ago

      Personally, I kinda roll Freedom of Expression into Freedom of Speech. Because any form of expression is essentially speech, even if it doesn’t use words to speak.

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        7 months ago

        That’s where I’d roll religion.

        But to me expression is so much more than speech, it’s how you dress, how you present, how you think, how you act, etc.

        Religion is long term something we as a species should be moving away from. The other freedoms aren’t.

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          I would disagree. How you dress, how you present, how you act, these are all things that speak without words. I would call those speech.

          Truthfully, though, if I were coining the phrase, I would have said “freedom of expression” and “freedom of thought” instead of “freedom of speech” and “freedom of worship”. Both of those are broader categories that encapsulate the concepts FDR articulated. After all, what is worship but conceptualizing the deep thoughts about where the universe came from, and finding a community of like minded folks?

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            Those two work for me, expression/thought.

            Worship is however simply repeating the propaganda you were fed as a child or a vulnerable adult. Hardly deep thought involved. I’d classify it more as a mental health issue, believing in something for zero actual reason, imagining things exist that aren’t real, etc.

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        any form of expression is essentially speech, even if it doesn’t use words to speak.

        That’s exactly the rationale behind the citizens united ruling