The Key Place of Religious Freedom in an Equitist Society.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Religious

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Equitist

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Dear Reader,

 

 

It is crucial that ‘‘‘Religious Freedom’’’ – in the full ‘intra-duality’ of its meaning – be «aufheben»-conserved in a successful self-«aufheben»-transition from capitalist society into Equitist-socialist society.

 

An Equitist government – i.e., a ‘political-economic-democratic’ – government, to be such, must collectively and officially take an agnostic position regarding all theisms and atheisms.

 

Thereby, it can sustain the human right of religious liberty from, e.g., the U.S. Constitution, and from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, etc.

 

In this way, an Equitist government can maintain its neutrality relative to all mutually-disputatious religions that may persist among its polity, and also maintain its neutrality vis-à-vis disputes among its religious versus its non-religious Citizens.

 

The meaning of such ‘‘‘Religious Freedom’’’ must encompass the duality of “Freedom of Religion” and “Freedom from Religion”. 

 

That is, Citizens must be free, without state interference, to choose which religion they will adhere to, or even to form a new religion, and those who choose no religion must be free from state imposition upon them of any governmentally “established”, “official” religion; from any “state church”.   

 

The state must also protect non-religious Citizens from coercive impositions upon them by unofficial, non-state-established religions, and must also protect religious Citizens from coercive impositions upon them by non-religious Citizens and civil society institutions.

 

Religious beliefs, though varying at least as widely as spoken natural languages vary, are, like spoken languages a universal phenomenon among Homo sapiens sapiens humans, albeit not an all-humans-inclusive phenomenon. 

 

Religion is not “withering away”, and is not likely to do so, even in a society that has overcome the universal self-alienation – the mandatory “self-selling”, or “universal prostitution” [Marx] – of the wage-labor/capital social relation of production.  We expect that it will not disappear so long as human beings are mortal, all facing the anxiety of the inescapable prospect and foreknowledge of certain death.

 

Given this universality of human religious propensities, to suppress all religion would require a police state.  Likewise, for the state to impose a single state religion upon all Citizens would also require a police state.

 

Many religionists refuse to associate with – or try to coercively proselytize – non-religious Citizens.  Many non-religious Citizens shun religious Citizens.  Many religionists shun other Citizens who have adopted other religions.

 

The best  course of action, we hold, is to collaborate together – non-religious Citizens, Citizens upholding any given religion, and Citizens upholding other religions – in projects of mutual concurrence, and to engage in dialogues about their respective views when there is ‘inter-mutual’ consent to do so.

 

As we see it, those who assert their absolute certainty of the non-existence of a Universal Deity are lying, or are self-deluded.  Likewise, those who assert their absolute certainty that their version of such a Deity exists, must be lying, apart from an experience of personal revelation of that Deity, which may also be self-delusory. 

 

As long as no one can produce absolute proof that no such Deity exists, or absolute proof that such a Deity does exist, we hold that the rational position is the dialectical synthesis of the Theist and A-Theist positions: Agnosticism.

 

If there is a Universal God, then She/He/It must be one Who hides from all collective, public, objective existential verifiability, thereby forcing agnosticism upon rational humanity as the rational alternative, since Deific existence can, so far, neither be proven true nor proven false. 

 

The proposition that “God Exists.”, and the proposition that “God does not exist.”, constitute two contradictory, undecidable propositions, but are not undecidable quite for the usual Gödelian reasons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Regards,

 

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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