When Will There Be Guaranteed Freedom From Persecution To Be Religious

[Estella]

Originally Posted by Miss Tick

I was trying, apparently unsuccessfully, to illuminate how the religious right and many of our political leaders feel the need to conflate morality with religion. And how many people buy into it. Also my belief is that by holding our leaders accountable for what they profess to believe, one can sometimes affect change.

It is a thread about the pressures to be religious. Hopefully my post was on point about that.

Okay, well then evidently I'm still missing your point. Is this thread about the hijacking of "morality" by the religious right, or is it about the pressure to be religious? While certainly related, these seem like very different issues to me. Perhaps after a few more posts, I'll be able to see your point more clearly.

[Cin]

Originally Posted by Fenchurch

Okay, well then evidently I'm still missing your point. Is this thread about the hijacking of "morality" by the religious right, or is it about the pressure to be religious? While certainly related, these seem like very different issues to me. Perhaps after a few more posts, I'll be able to see your point more clearly.

Well if someone hijacks morality and only the religious are seen as moral then wouldn't that feel somewhat like pressure to be religious? At the very least there would be pressure not to challenge the moral validity of the choices made by people who claim to be religious. And there would be pressure to shy away from using moral accountability as a springboard for change if morality were conflated with religion.

The hijacking of morality is not the only issue. It is one of the issues I see bound up in the pressure to be religious.