Freedom to religion

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We have here a disparate view of what freedom of religion is. On the one hand, we are allowed to worship who and what we desire. On the other we are allowed to worship only what the government has deemed useful to society.  

The question of where also is important because worshipping in private is much more allowable, than in public right?  Freedom of religion is a way of doing the right thing.  Does this include porn?  Yes.  And if we want to watch on the bus next to children?  No.  And what about quashing the rhetoric of Allah and the Arabs at the soup kitchen? No.


Yeah, it's a very hard thing... to allow freedom. Indeed the first thing I would do if I were free from my master, let's say, would be to go to the master's house and take a shit there. Just to make sure I was "free". So will it be with gays, so will it be with Mexicans, so will it be with, I dunno, teen contraception purchasing.  

Free is free.


But I CAN'T be free to put my finger up your nose. Freedom does not include making your life mine to control. Yet it comes close doesn't it because always there is the point in your life where one person meets you on the road and one of you has to move.


But the argument doesn't end with a simple violent confrontation. We are not bound to every law based on who has the most force. Many things depend on how the law is viewed and... interpreted.


I am about to interpret for you. 

When you are free to practice religion you have the duty to organize in a manner that is a subset to our constitution. I have said this before. The structure that religion provides allows you to feel BELIEF, which fuels you to go on in the world. As long as this goal is within what is allowed by the Constitution, then you are free to pursue your goals with the understanding that achieving them makes our country stronger.


Let's say for example I have a gay religion. Not too complicated right? All people MUST be gay. So we gather together, talk about being gay and trying new things that were not so legal not long ago and we probably all know the BEST brands of lotion out there or at least how to debate about it. But straight people are not allowed right? And that's legal right? Yes.


Let's take the service or the bar and restaurant business. 

People there are mostly servers and the ilk. They are all OK with earning $2.13 an hour plus tips and it's understood that if they are NOT ok with it, then speaking out is at least physically possible. But outsiders are not really welcomed are they? And as they start to keep more and more secrets, outsiders tend to "beleaguer" the regular people.


"Don't you WANT to earn more money?"


And so it was in Citibank. As you went higher and higher up in the chain of command, more and more people "didn't care" how you showed your stats so long as you showed them. My supervisor was once willing to put only the first half of her team's stats as her average even though she was supposed to include all stats. A clearly unethical move but she just sat there in front of us and told us to do it. A shock to me. But I was not in charge and I respect the chain of command so I didn't say anything. My problems were only beginning because this "anomolous" supervisor soon learned after that that I was the big cheese in the office and after seeing the way it was around me, soon "found" new problems with my performance. She had been a senior before but was demoted and I guess now I knew why.  This was someone that they couldn't get rid of and all she knew about running things was doing things her way. It was a nightmare. Especially since I couldn't correct her corrections... if you follow me.


Later I found HER supervisor's stats when compared to other senior leaders stats and his were FAR better than his peers. UNNATURALLY better. So he must have known her stats were fake right? Or maybe he TOLD them how he wanted his stats. Anyways this was how the most profitable SBU in Citibank was made into a MORE profitable SBU.


All my work making the associates' lives peaceful got replaced with "incredible" talk times. They were asked to take calls for regular customers in addition to business owners cards and since they already knew so much, because of my efforts to make them self-sufficient, they were told to "wing it" and they were able to. They eventually got co-opted with sales so that their jobs of simply answering the phones, started to turn a profit for the Senior manager whose ingenuity, unlike mine, perverted the entire department into a hot box of TANGIBLE activity.


But it might have had to do with my supervisor being fired. He was fired for kissing his girlfriend in a stairwell. I didn't agree with that and with him gone, I was left in charge of the department and one day I decided to just close it for a couple of hours. Yep. We went out to a restaurant and I wowed them all with my HA-HA moment. One sancitmonious week later, people were talking about it. And now to think back on it all... I might have caused it all.


If that's true, I'm sorry guys.


OH, freedom of religion, well it goes like this, if you want to be free to worship then you gotta have the same beliefs as our founding fathers did. You have to want the following:

1.) TO END TYRANNY

2.) TO FURTHER EQUAL REPRESENTATION

3.) and you HAVE TO WANT TO FOLLOW GEORGE. 
(I know, I know, George has nothing to do with it but remember I'm INTERPRETING.)


On a final note let me just say that currently in Arizona a new law that allows freedom of religion would allow businesses to pick and choose its customers. I feel for them because often I see the sign in the service industry. It says "We refuse the right to serve anyone".


Doesn't that just ring of discrimination? Should that be allowed?


Now skipping that let me just say that there was a good reason for JESUS being crucified and that was because he became a THREAT to businesses that wanted to practice using religion in public. Bad Idea. Religion is a personal and private thing. People should volunteer sure, and you might be able to pick and choose who you want in your club maybe, but you can't have a CLUB in public.


Get that? YOU CAN'T HAVE A CLUB... IN PUBLIC.


See, I just solved their problem with religion. It all goes back to "FOR PROFIT" and "NON-PROFIT'. One is for the good of its workers, the other is for the good of EVERYONE.

Religion = Non-Profit