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palmagma
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That there is no such thing.
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I don't know about "most" religions; my religion encourages thought, questioning, dialogue, intellect, and education.
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Before you speak, consider the feelings of the other.
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In general, religions tend to be more about restricting the individual -- getting people to color inside the lines of the religious beliefs. However, for some Buddhist and Hindu-flavored sects, freedom is an important goal of practice: to free the individual from the constraints of conditioning and rigid belief structures. However, some people argue that these disciplines do not qualify as "religions", so like so many things, one must define ones' terms carefully.
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They don't. All religions require you to believe a certain amount of Dogma. If you don't you're out. So you give up freedom of thought and speech unless, of course, you are brainwashed and then everything is hunky dorry and there is no conflict! :)
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That you have the freedom of thought and the freedom to speak = worshipping the "Proper" religion and to speak only favorably of said religion. Because anything else is Blasphemy.
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there is no freedom in most religions .. you are traped in a cult of social programing . guilt , fear , and denial , help keep you there ... that's what it was designed to do.
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Ye! Verily, ye shall have no freedom of thought or speech. Ye who think critically shall be scythed and ye who debate shall be poked until blind!
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I don't know about "most" religions -- mine encourages both.
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Okay, I never got to leafing through it, but how about flooding the world because of partytown? Or, the Tower of Babble, (godly knew those guys could never reach the top). Two actions that curtailed freedom of thought by way of opression and fear. How about, Chapter one - nobody eats from the tree of knowledge, without premission.
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That freedom of thought and speech are a sin and should be prohibited unless you agree with everything they say.
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Many religions teach open-mindedness. The danger is generalizing all religions or pigeon-holing them. There is a spectrum of belief in almost all religions. In Catholicism, for example, there are those who are rigid and stoic in their beliefs, but there are also educational institutions within Catholicism that encourage open thought, questioning and academic research. Religion doesn't have to be rigid; it's a living, breathing thing as fluid as the people who practice it.
Thriftymaid 
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