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Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring delves into the complexities of religious freedom and the role of the state in maintaining a neutral stance towards religion. The book examines historical and contemporary examples to illustrate the importance of respecting individual beliefs while ensuring a secular society. more

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Stephen V Monsma

Stephen V Monsma, whose profession is unknown, was born on September 22, 1936. His detailed biography and contributions are not available due to limited information. more

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“Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society approaches church-state issues. However, there is persuasive evidence that among some influential segments of the population, there is a very real antireligious strain.”

“The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.”

“Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.”

“Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.”