| Theists: Your Opinion on the Vatican's Dignitatis Humanæ ? "All persons have a right to religious liberty, a right with its foundation in the essential dignity of each human being. All persons must be free to seek the truth without coercion. The highest norm of human life is the divine law and truth, but it can only be sought after in the proper and free manner, with the aid of teaching or instruction, communication and dialogue, and it must be adhered to by personal assent. This freedom from coercion in religious affairs must also be recognized as a right when persons act in community. As such a community, and in fact a society in its own original right, has the right to live its own domestic religious life in freedom, in particular the freedom to choose religious education." Opinions? Thoughts? This freedom from coercion in religious affairs must also be recognized as a right when persons act in community. Threats of burning in hell seem to violate this.... ImaCatholic: I do not refer to those like yourself with the "car" example. I quite understand intelligent and sincere discourse and concern. I speak of those that continually harass, threaten, and bully others. Telling me that I should be set on fire and taught the error of my ways is not akin to warning me a car is coming. THOSE are the ones I speak of and too. Perhaps they need to seek example from what they claim to try and teach. Religion & Spirituality - 3 Answers Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions : 1 : I trust the Bible not the Vatican. 2 : You are the most sexiest vampire I have ever seen. I think what you wrote sounds like the perfect world, though. Almost as perfect as you. 3 : The entire world agreed to include freedom of religion in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. See Article 2: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html The citizens of the United States think this freedom is just as important as the freedoms of speech or the press. All are part of the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html Even the Catholic Church seeks and supports the freedom of religion for all human beings. In the Vatican II document, Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae (Human Dignity), the Church states: The human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits. For the entire document, see: http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html ==== That said, is it a "threat" to tell someone that if they cross a street without looking both ways then they might be hit by a car? No, this is education and not coercion. In the same way, is it a threat or coercion to tell someone while discussing each other's religious beliefs that I believe that if they choose not to be with God forever then God will honor their free will choice? No, once again this is a sharing of beliefs and ideas. One of the things that make a group of people into a community. Freedom of religion is not the same as freedom from religion. With love in Christ. |
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