No mention of deities in government
To promote religious freedom, there should not be any mention of any god(s) in government documents or government sponsored organizations.
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Now, while I understand the reasoning behind not mentioning any specific deities, government represents everyone, and "Democracy" is a "majority-rules" scenario meant to eliminate the ability of the few to dictate over the majority.
The facts are, majorities all over the world are going to believe in specific deities, and legislation is going to have to deal with such things in a world-wide Democracy.
The primary idea of freedom is that all ideas are given the same objective consideration. You cannot say to all Islamic communities of the entire world that you have no rights to have Sharia law because we've decided that it's the wrong choice.
If that's what their majority wants in their communities, they have every right to that because this is a world-wide Democracy, not a national thing. A Muslim can simply move away from the U.S. if he or she holds to the opinion that our ways are detrimental to the well-being and development of his/her family. They can choose to leave and go to a nation that agrees with them. They have every right to believe the way they do, regardless of how erroneous we may believe them to be. The right to pursue happiness is not an idle concept meant to placate the masses, it is a fundamental foundational principle that our nation was built upon and that the left locks itself in bitter war against.
Deities will have to be mentioned in order to grant the rights of majorities their rights to their own majority opinions in a world-wide Democracy.
However, what should be done instead of banning the mention of Deities is a more broad thing such as no majority decision or law for any community is allowed to enforce it's will upon any individual who has made a decision to be released from its burden. For example, if a community, mostly of Muslims, decides to implement Sharia, they have every right to implement it because it's a Democracy and majority rules, but they have no rights to force any individual to be under that law who has decided to formally renounce and reject that law.
It's not something we have not already dealt with. The Native Americans, many of the tribes have their own tribe-only governments and laws that the tribal members are required to follow. The U.S. government does not go in and force them to follow all it's laws. They have their rights to privileges of law that most Americans do not have, and this is a good thing because we took their land, it's the least we can do.
Anyhow, the point is this, their people give their consent to follow those laws, and any of them that decide that they no longer wish to be under those laws have every right as a citizen to be freed from them.
Now, of course those laws are typically easy laws to follow, I'd imagine, but the point is, they have their rights to follow their own ideas and ideals without interference except where the state or national government feels in prudent. For example, none of them are allowed be cannibals, and I realize that's a rather crude example, but the fact is, there were tribes that existed had such gruesome practices.
My point is this majority-rules in each community as it sees fit thing is not something that we haven't dealt with. It's not something that we cannot make happen. It is something that we must make happen because all ideas and ideals have the right to be heard by the rational and vast majority of people in this world.
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