#Religious Freedom

Religious freedom is the privilege of proclaiming one's faith while discreetly ignoring the faith others proclaim. The state sings paeans to this right even as it favors preferred denominations and quietly surveils those it dislikes. Citizens proclaim “everyone can believe what they want,” only to panic when their neighbor builds a place of worship for an inconvenient deity. In the end, religious freedom may be nothing more than a tightrope walk between believing and forbidding belief.