>>Suppose someone were to aver: 'There is no true freedom
of religion in a democracy if there is no freedom to burn
heretics and apostates as required by our religion.' What
would the proper response be to such a claim?"
And why were Satanists overlooked in Bush's so-called
faith-based initiatives? Surely they could have run a soup
kitchen between animal sacrifices.
Suppose the answer is that in a liberal democracy,
Enlightenment values of maximum happiness overrule the
tenets of any particular religion? The highest goal being
successful pluralism -- goals subsidiary to that being
freedom of religion, speech, usw.
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