What was the importance of freedom of religion?

Answer 1

Freedom of religion is so important, because no matter what one's religion is, all religions have one thing in common: If an individual is forced to follow certain customs and beliefs, that person is not whole-heartedly being religious. For instance: A person is not a Christian just because that individual's parents tried to make him be one. Only if the person honestly believes and forms a relationship with Christ can he really be a Christian...Hope that helped clarify any questions you had:)

Answer 2

The First Amendment forbids Congress from making any "laws respecting an establishment of religion". Morever, people come to America to believe in what they do and follow their religion without anyone forbidding them to do so.

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Answer 3

It was for people to have the right to believe in any religion.

Answer:

The right of freedom of religion effectively:

• removed the potential of a state sponsored or approved religion
• removed the potential for a requirement of having a religion to hold office
• offered relief from the need to swear oaths

Answer 4

There are two major reasons that religious freedom is important, but these things do not apply to the US alone. The US is one of the major nations where these reasons are recognized as important.

The freedom to choose any religious path--or NONE--is the freedom to act in accordance with one's own conscience--with your heart or spirit--which is the only place that genuine faith truly exists. If you can't believe what your heart tells you to believe, you cannot have genuine faith in something so vague as what you have been told--or are being forced--to believe. The freedom to choose makes possible a genuine personal commitment to faith.

The second reason is that religion is a matter of faith. In the US we believe it would be wrong for our government to make political decisions--possibly even life and death decisions--based on our quite imperfect ideas about the will of God. God is perfect, but our understanding of God is not, therefore our decisions about social, public and political actions must be based on a more clear-cut and logical system of thought than our fallible ideas about "What God might want us to do."

Freedom of religion is very much the freedom to act in accordance with one's conscience and freedom from religious tyranny.

Answer 5

People were well aware that throughout history, the intolerance of religion let to conflict very often. Also, over time many people started to strongly believe the all people had rights to their own religious beliefs.

Answer 6

freedom of religion is important to Americans because if they believe in God they are afraid that he might punish them for worshipping a fake god.