To Have or Not to Have

Religious freedom.

“A Russian court has barred Jehovah's Witnesses from operating in the capital, Moscow. A Russian law from 1997 recognizes only four traditional religions - Orthodoxy, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam.”

Here at home we have the sextuplets who in the Drs. opinion need blood but the parents are Seventh Day Adventists. The court took custody of them.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the 58 Member States of the UN General Assembly on Dec 10, 1948, at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris France defines freedom of religion and belief as follows:
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.

Many people mistake religious tolerance for religious freedom. “Keep it to your self” is hardly freedom !

Suppose you were a preacher and you found out that your new congregation could not read. Would you teach them to read?