Talk:Freedom of worship

I've just done some work on the freedom of religion site, trying to include this material. A couple of people have suggested the merher already, and I'm not opposed to it. My problems with that article, leading me to initiate this one, were that (a) it was entirely historical, and (b) it treated the princople as an abstract one -- where the issue was not implementation but simply recognition.

The issues of implementatioin I began to address in this article should resolve both of those problems. If merged it as best I can into freedom of religion now, but a lot more work is needed. --Christofurio 13:23, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

POV

A lot of this article seems POV (maybe it's just the phrasing of the examples) --Jacobolus 03:17, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

"Freedom of worship" is the second of Four Freedoms outlined in the 1941 State of the Union address. Quite often writers who have not actually read the Four Freedoms address make the mistake of calling it "freedom of religion". Roosevelt made it quite plain that he was discussing the "worship of God", he was not discussing theology or religious doctines. He said that every person had the right to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world. The discussion of freedom of religion is a theological matter involving doctrines. Worship of God by anyone in their own way says nothing about the intervention of others (rabbis, priests, ministers, etc.), it merely states that freedom of worship is an individual matter of choice and that essentially it is not the place of other people to dictate how a person chooses to worship God. Worship involves physical action versus mere thought or discussion about ideas. If you can find a better way of stating all of the above - go for it. MPLX/MH 20:16, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)