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*Some people are so thin skinned.*
Every now and then a word substitution changes the meaning of a sentence.
Take the first amendment for example:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Now take that first clause and use the word "worship" rather than
"religion."
What the founders had in mind? Doubtful.
While it may be true that all thirteen of the original states were settled
by Christian groups escaping persecution, or were penal colonies full of
nominal Christians (in other words variations on a theme) the founders saw
fit to not only NOT establish an official religion, but with the second
clause of the amendment "Congress shall make no law...prohibiting the free
exercise thereof" essentially guaranteed the freedom to PRACTICE religion,
not simply to worship. Worship itself is part of the practice. That's a
big difference.
Fast forward to yesterday.
*Doo dee doo doo. Doo dee doo doo. Doo dee doo doo.*
Imagine the surprise of an American who aces a BuzzFeed style "Could You
Pass A Citizenship Test" but has a problem with question number eleven
which deals with the first amendment. No where in the question or the
multiple choice answers is the word "religion". The law is presented as
"Freedom to Worship."
*Not the first time this has come up. *
Here's the problem with that, and I will just use my faith, Catholicism, as
an example without getting into semantics. Freedom to worship for
religious people means style, more or less. For Catholic worship, yes,
there is a written book of rubrics of posture and attitude for liturgy, but
at this time there are so many exceptions as to make that useless. Some
people like a hootenanny, some people prefer what we call "Extraordinary
Form" which is Mass in Latin with chant, some of us just like Novus Ordo
straight up and by the book with traditional music. One way or another,
Mass is Mass so long as the priest says the words of the Consecration
exactly as they are written. And that's just Mass. There are a number of
other liturgies that can have all sorts of variations. (We won't get into
the re-translation of three years ago that has met amazing resistance.)
THAT is worship. That is not exercise or practice of religion, though
(even if Catholic worship does involve a lot of kneeling, standing and
genuflecting).
As Christians - and the same concept applies to Jews, Hindi, Buddhists, and
even Islam - we are called to do number of things for love of the Father,
Son and Holy Spirit. The first requirement for Christians is to love the
Lord Our God with all our hearts and all our souls. The second, love your
neighbor as yourself, and treat others as you would have them treat you.
The first part is a personal thing. It involves no one other than the
individual and God. The second, on the other hand, is the basis of western
law.
Apart from Sacred Scripture, which requires a lot of digging to get to
actual instructions, there is a document, a cheat sheet of sorts, that was
left to the Church by the Apostles called the Didache
<http://thedidache.com/>. It was lost to us for a number of centuries (a
copy was found in Greece in the late 19th century), but is referenced
heavily by the early Church Doctors and Fathers. For some reason, the
Didache did not meet the standard for Sacred Scripture when the Canon of
the Bible was closed 300 years later at the Council of Carthage, and there
appears to have been quite an argument on that. But the Didache in the
second and third sections clearly lays out the human do's and don'ts as the
Apostles taught in the first century. Living as that list outlines, which
describes how we are to live in the world - and how we STILL live in the
world - IS the exercise of Christianity, just as honor killing is
exercising Islam, and not eating pork or shellfish is exercising Judaism,
and on and on.
*Does God really want to be loved via honor killings?*
In that way, Christianity is a way of life. Just as Judaism is, Hinduism,
Buddhism, and, yes, Islam. Religion is not checked at the door of the
church, synagogue, temple, shrine, etc. It is exercised, just as the
Founding Fathers of the United States guaranteed when the first amendment
of our Constitution was adopted.
When it comes to religion, the liberals/progressives are trying to change
the actual language of the conversation. In the last few years, there has
been an attempt to morph freedom of religion into freedom of worship as if
going to church is just something to do on Sunday morning (or Saturday
evening). Worship does not exist for entertainment. It's the public
prayer aspect of faith. It has a function within the exercise of religion,
but it is not religion itself.
*Is the idea of citizens placing a higher allegiance to God, Yahweh,
Jehovah - whatever He is called - than the state really that much of an
issue? That's why the communists made the public exercise of religion
illegal.*
Words matter. It is a slippery thing to allow progressives to get away
with relabeling religion as worship. Those two words are not
interchangeable. One is part of the other. And, no, just because we leave
the building, the exercise of religion does not stop.
*Cultural Limits <http://mikesright.wordpress.com/author/mynewpolitics/>*
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