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Monday, June 24th, 2019, by Douglas Wilson.

Introduction So I want to make a point I have made before and I want to do it yet again, but this is perfectly

all right because it is a point that cannot be made enough.

And here it is again. Religious liberty is not a secular value.

Religious liberty is a religious value

and not all religions value it equally,

or even at all. Those who prize religious liberty must therefore realize that

many worldviews cannot or will not support religious liberty. There is only one faith that supports genuine religious liberty. There is only one faith that supports genuine religious liberty, but it does so because we adopted

it, because we believe that Jesus rose from the dead, and not because we were pursuing

the idol of religious liberty.

The Christian faith is true and that is why good things grow there.

I really don't mind making this point repeatedly because it is about as hard as hitting the ground with your hat, and besides it's usually fun being right. At the same time, that fun is admittedly short-lived because it is no fun being right on an issue of such monumental importance in a world

when secularism, with its black little totalitarian heart, is pretending to be fully supportive

of what they call religious liberty.

But as soon as you ask one or two pointed questions about why they think we should have

religious liberty, that secularism develops a serious case of the cutes.

The chasm.

In the screw tape letters,

CS Lewis makes reference to an old observation of Aristotle's on the meaning of

Democratic behavior. Does Democratic behavior mean behavior

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