Rights of Conscience Inalienable: An Apologetic
Many cultures throughout time have sought to ensure the peace of a people group by tying together the forces of the secular and the spiritual. Constantine’s conversion and proclamation of Christianity as the religion of Rome is discussed as a positive event. Yet, from the establishment of the colonies through the framing of the Bill of Rights and the final disestablishment religion in the 1830’s, the predominately Christian founders of the United States recognized the need for not only physical liberty, but mental and spiritual liberty as well. John Leland, in his article “The Rights of Conscience Inalienable”, lays out five causes for the Establishment of Religion and the corruption behind each. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CY0100704904/SABN?u=vic_liberty&sid=bookmark-SABN&xid=73569084&pg=1 The right to evaluate and decide for oneself is based upon historical, logical, and moral grounds. The first cause for Established religion is based upo...