Topic = Religious Liberty and Religious Liberality
Issue = How liberal should we be in allowing people to be openly religious or anti-religious?
● Ponder the character issue stated using the Relevant Human Characteristics listed below. Together they will aid you in discovering the best possible answers to the character issue stated.
Relevant Human Characteristics
● Each of the following definitions is a relevant human characteristic from one or more of our books.
● At the end of all of the definitions are "Sources" for the definitions and an explanation of the "Defined Numerical Values" shown in front of the definitions. For example, a definition preceded by a 2 is a virtue. A definition preceded by a -2 is a vice.
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2 liberal1 - to be charitably religious or religiously charitable
2 liberal2 - to be prone to refuse to be selfish
2 liberal3 - to be prone to refuse to be malicious
2 liberal4 - to be prone to advocate or tolerate another person’s freedom to help produce, preserve or restore true enlightenment, virtue and integrity within me, my family and society
2 liberal5 - to be prone to respectfully and rightfully consider the interests, sentiments or views of other people in changing or making decisions which can impact them
1 liberal6 - to be prone to advocate or tolerate individual freedom of expression and behavior
0 liberal7 - to be prone to advocate rapid progress or extensive reform
0 liberal8 - to be prone to denounce or ignore existing orthodoxy, institutions or traditions
0 liberal9 - to be prone to lightly or loosely abide by prevalent laws, rules, standards or values
0 liberal10 - to be prone to estimate, interpret or provide generously or loosely
-1 liberal11 - to be prone to disregard proven methods of caution, discretion, moderation or thrift
-2 liberal12 - to be and to choose to remain so generous in giving or spending as to be viciously spoiling
-2 liberal13 - to be prone to gratuitously give or spend in an extravagant, lavish or profuse manner which far exceeds the real needs of one or more recipients, which undermines their diligence, self-reliance or thrift, or which discourages their service to other people
-2 liberal14 - to be prone to advocate, favor or seek to preserve government which gives or spends in an extravagant, lavish or profuse manner which far exceeds the real needs of one or more recipients, which undermines their diligence, self-reliance or thrift, or which discourages their service to other people
-2 liberal15 - to be prone to advocate, favor or seek to preserve government which uses excessive borrowing or taxation to be viciously welfarist
-2 liberal16 - to be prone to execute, legislate or judge to an extent or in a manner which is dishonest, excessive or imprudent enough to destroy the virtuously liberating freedom, health, honorable economic prosperity and steady progress of me, my family and society
-2 liberal17 - to be prone to allow or cause true enlightenment, virtue, integrity, liberty, hope, peace and joy to suffer damage, decay, destruction, disintegration, loss, injury or waste within me, my family and society
-2 liberal18 - to be prone to advocate or tolerate another person’s freedom to help produce, preserve or restore darkness, vice and corruption within me, my family and society
-2 liberal19 - to be prone to advocate or tolerate another person’s freedom to broadcast or display lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful or otherwise evil or satanic expression or behavior
-2 liberal20 - to be prone to advocate or tolerate libertine or licentious freedom of evil or satanic expression or behavior
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2 religious1 - to be virtuously conscientious in giving all that I have and am to doing my very best day by day to inherit or receive the greatest eternal blessings of knowing, loving, reverencing, serving and worshiping God by my faithfully repentant and honorably exact obedience to those divinely appointed commandments, covenants, laws and ordinances upon which receipt of those blessings is predicated
2 religious2 - to be prone to bind myself to continue to faithfully strive to do all I can and should to discover and then live by that form of religion which best empowers me to best unite with others to best produce, preserve or restore the greatest true enlightenment, virtue, integrity, liberty, hope, peace and joy within ourselves, our families and society
2 religious3 - to be prone to bind myself to continue to faithfully strive to do all I can and should to discover and then live by that form of religion which best empowers me to best add to that measure of true enlightenment, virtue, integrity, liberty, hope, peace and joy already found within me
2 religious4 - to be prone to bind myself to continue to faithfully strive to do all I can and should to discover and then live in harmony with those religious anointings, ceremonies, confirmations, covenants, endowments, formalities, oaths, observances, orders, ordinances, ordinations, pledges, practices, rites, rituals, sacraments, sealings, services or washings which best empower me to receive the greatest true enlightenment, virtue, integrity, liberty, hope, peace and joy of which I have become aware in my education and training and in my own constantly diligent, honest and open-minded searching
2 religious5 - to be prone to bind myself to continue to faithfully strive to do all I can and should to diligently, persistently and wholeheartedly live in harmony with the best and highest doctrines, laws, precepts, principles, rules, standards or values of truth and virtue of which I have become aware in my education and training and in my own constantly diligent, honest and open-minded searching
2 religious6 - to be prone to think, speak and act in harmony with the self-evident truth that each accountable person habitually binds or fastens the conduct and outcome of our own life to our own personal form of religion by willfully choosing to rely on the practice of complying with and conforming to one particular system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or to one particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or to one particular lifestyle or way of life, or to one particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any one of which can be a personal form of religion
0 religious7 - to be prone to bind or devote myself in agreement with other people to believe and live in harmony with teachings which are an official part of what is believed and practiced within a particular organized assembly or system of theistic belief, devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship
0 religious8 - to be prone to practice conforming to or complying with a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint based upon, derived from or governed by a particular composition or set of personally held beliefs, values and characteristics
0 religious9 - to be prone to practice conforming to or complying with a particular lifestyle or way of life based upon, derived from or governed by a particular composition or set of personally held beliefs, values and characteristics
0 religious10 - to be prone to practice conforming to or complying with a particular composition or set of personally held beliefs and with the consequent values and characteristics which attend them
0 religious11 - to be prone to practice conforming to or complying with a particular composition or set of values and their consequent characteristics
0 religious12 - to be prone to practice conforming to or complying with a particular composition or set of characteristics
0 religious13 - to be devoutly serving by one or more definitions
0 religious14 - to be devoutly loving by one or more definitions
0 religious15 - to be devoutly reciprocating by one or more definitions
0 religious16 - to be devoutly scriptural by one or more definitions
0 religious17 - to be prone to fail or refuse to be antireligious, irreligious, nonreligious or unreligious by one or more definitions
-2 religious18 - to be prone to claim association or practice affiliation with a particular organized assembly or system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or a particular lifestyle or way of life, or a particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any part of which produces, preserves or restores darkness, vice and corruption within me, my family and society
-2 religious19 - to be prone to claim association or practice affiliation with a particular organized assembly or system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or a particular lifestyle or way of life, or a particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any part of which is viciously philosophizing, secular or sophisticating
-2 religious20 - to be prone to claim association or practice affiliation with a particular organized assembly or system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or a particular lifestyle or way of life, or a particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any part of which is viciously customary, fundamentalist or traditionalist
-2 religious21 - to be prone to claim association or practice affiliation with a particular organized assembly or system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or a particular lifestyle or way of life, or a particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any part of which is viciously compromising, ecumenical, egalitarian, reconciling or syncretic
-2 religious22 - to be prone to claim association or practice affiliation with a particular organized assembly or system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or a particular lifestyle or way of life, or a particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any part of which is viciously dissenting, divisive or schismatic
-2 religious23 - to be prone to claim association or practice affiliation with a particular organized assembly or system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or a particular lifestyle or way of life, or a particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any part of which is viciously apostate, fallen, or heretical
-2 religious24 - to be prone to claim association or practice affiliation with a particular organized assembly or system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or a particular lifestyle or way of life, or a particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any part of which is agnostic, anti-Christ, asatanic, or atheistic
-2 religious25 - to be prone to claim association or practice affiliation with a particular organized assembly or system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or a particular lifestyle or way of life, or a particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any part of which is habitually dissipated, drunken, indolent or worldly
-2 religious26 - to be prone to claim association or practice affiliation with a particular organized assembly or system of devotion, faith, reverence, veneration or worship, or a particular form of ideology or ideological constraint, obligation or restraint, or a particular lifestyle or way of life, or a particular set of thoughts, beliefs, values and characteristics—any part of which is abusive, cruel, malicious or vicious
-2 religious27 - to be and to choose to remain corruptly, malevolently, maliciously or viciously reciprocating while allegedly acting in behalf of, in the name of, or in accordance with some religion or religious leader
-2 religious28 - to be and to choose to remain corruptly, malevolently, maliciously or viciously persecuting while allegedly acting in behalf of, in the name of, or in accordance with some religion or religious leader
-2 religious29 - to be and to choose to remain corruptly, malevolently, maliciously or viciously terrorizing while allegedly acting in behalf of, in the name of, or in accordance with some religion or religious leader
-2 religious30 - to be and to choose to remain corruptly, malevolently, maliciously or viciously murderous or genocidal while allegedly acting in behalf of, in the name of, or in accordance with some religion or religious leader
-2 religious31 - to be and to choose to remain corruptly, malevolently, maliciously or viciously warmongering or warring while allegedly acting in behalf of, in the name of, or in accordance with some religion or religious leader
-2 religious32 - to be prone to mistakenly think, speak or act as though God commands or will condone my efforts to forcibly destroy or violently take from the people of another nation or religion that God-given agency or mortal power of liberty which He has given to a religiously diverse world to freely choose before and after death to reject His true religion, and to suffer only God’s own justly imposed consequences before and after death for doing so
-2 religious33 - to be prone to grievously violate the laws of God and the laws of humanity by erroneously calling for or participating in evil or satanic persecution, terrorism, murder, genocide or other evil and dehumanizing atrocities in an attempt to forcibly destroy or violently take from one or more good and honorable people their God-given agency or mortal power of liberty to freely choose before and after death to believe in a religion other than His own and to suffer only God’s own justly imposed consequences before and after death for doing so
-2 religious34 - to be prone to erroneously claim God can justly cause His true religion to prevail on this earth by allowing or commanding the people of any one religion (including all of the wicked and unrepentant members and all of the coerced and unbelieving converts among them) to use warfare to annihilate all of the people of all other religious beliefs (including all of the good and honorable men, women and children among them)—rather than by lovingly sending His servants to justly, openly and peaceably invite all of those accountable, good and honorable men, women and children in all of the nations and religions of this earth, who are not yet converted to His true religion, to openly and peaceably investigate, personally verify and voluntarily accept and live before or after death His true religion in a manner which will preserve their God-given agency or mortal power of liberty to freely choose before and after death to believe in a religion other than His own and to suffer only God’s own justly imposed consequences before and after death for doing so
-2 religious35 - to be prone to love and worship Satan or other false gods more than God
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2 antireligious1 - to be prone to refuse to be religiously asatanic or atheistic
2 antireligious2 - to be prone to reject and withstand the influence of any and every religion which truly produces, preserves or restores darkness, vice and corruption within me, my family and society
0 antireligious3 - to be prone to reject and withstand the influence of a particular form of religion
0 antireligious4 - to be prone to reject or oppose being religious by one or more definitions
-2 antireligious5 - to be prone to aggressively or passively abuse or malign that religion which consists of the most enlightened laws, rules, standards or values of which I have become aware in my education and training and in my own constantly diligent, honest and open-minded searching
-2 antireligious6 - to be prone to aggressively or passively abuse or malign that religion which can best produce, preserve or restore the greatest true enlightenment, virtue, integrity, liberty, hope, peace and joy within me, my family and society
-2 antireligious7 - to be prone to desire or insist that other people refrain from harboring enmity and hatred toward my own religion because of the crimes or misdeeds of some of its members—while I harbor an enmity and hatred toward another religion merely because of the crimes or misdeeds of some its members
-2 antireligious8 - to be prone to desire or insist that other people refrain from viciously classifying, discriminating against or excluding me and all of the other members of my religion merely because we are members of our religion—while I viciously classify, discriminate against or exclude all those who are members of another religion merely because they are members of that religion
-2 antireligious9 - to be prone to malevolently preach falsehoods or lies against one or more religions
-2 antireligious10 - to be prone, without personally ascertaining whether an accuser’s claim is true, to broadcast, distribute, publish or preach that accuser’s defamatory, libelous, maligning or slanderous materials or statements against any religion, including my own
-2 antireligious11 - to be prone to defame, libel, malign, slander or otherwise abuse the reputation of those who are of another religion merely because they are of a religion other than my own
-2 antireligious12 - to be prone to mistakenly think, speak or act as though God commands or will condone my efforts to forcibly destroy or violently take from the people of another nation or religion that God-given agency or mortal power of liberty which He has given to a religiously diverse world to freely choose before and after death to reject His true religion, and to suffer only God’s own justly imposed consequences before and after death for doing so
-2 antireligious13 - to be prone to grievously violate the laws of God and the laws of humanity by erroneously calling for or participating in evil or satanic persecution, terrorism, murder, genocide or other evil and dehumanizing atrocities in an attempt to forcibly destroy or violently take from one or more good and honorable people their God-given agency or mortal power of liberty to freely choose before and after death to believe in a religion other than His own and to suffer only God’s own justly imposed consequences before and after death for doing so
-2 antireligious14 - to be prone to erroneously claim God can justly cause His true religion to prevail on this earth by allowing or commanding the people of any one religion (including all of the wicked and unrepentant members and all of the coerced and unbelieving converts among them) to use warfare to annihilate all of the people of all other religious beliefs (including all of the good and honorable men, women and children among them)—rather than by lovingly sending His servants to justly, openly and peaceably invite all of those accountable, good and honorable men, women and children in all of the nations and religions of this earth, who are not yet converted to His true religion, to openly and peaceably investigate, personally verify and voluntarily accept and live before or after death His true religion in a manner which will preserve their God-given agency or mortal power of liberty to freely choose before and after death to believe in a religion other than His own and to suffer only God’s own justly imposed consequences before and after death for doing so
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SOURCE(S)
The above definitions come from the following sources. See the following sources to study definitions of other human characteristics shown in the preceding definitions, such as agnostic, anti-Christ, asatanic or atheistic. See the book The Language of Human Character for a complete list of definitions of these and other relevant words such as areligious, interreligious, irreligious, nonreligions, religionistic and unreligious.
To Be Virtuous, Second Edition (for definitions with a defined numerical value of 2. Each 2 is a human virtue.)
The Language of Human Virtue (for definitions with defined numerical values of 2, 1, 0 or -1, each of which can be used to build, preserve or strengthen human virtue.)
The Language of Human Character (for definitions with defined numerical values of 2, 1, 0, -1 or -2. Each -2 is a human vice.)
DEFINED NUMERICAL VALUE(S)
2 is the defined numerical value (or impact value) given each defined virtue which constantly and powerfully produces, preserves or restores true enlightenment, virtue, integrity, liberty, hope, peace and joy within me, my family and society. Simple statement: I will always be this, and I will do and teach this as often, as much, and for as long as possible.
1 is the defined numerical value (or impact value) given each defined characteristic which generally produces, preserves or restores a measure of true enlightenment, virtue, integrity, liberty, hope, peace and joy within me, my family and society. Simple statement: I will do, be and teach this unless, to serve a better purpose, I should not.
0 is the defined numerical value (or impact value) given each defined characteristic the positive value of which (2 or 1) or the negative value of which (-1 or -2) can only be determined by my chosen purpose for its use and by the extent and manner of my actual possession or use of it. Simple statement: I will do, be and teach this enough for a good purpose; and I will neither do, nor be nor teach this to any extent or in any manner for any evil purpose.
-1 is the defined numerical value (or impact value) given each defined characteristic which generally produces, preserves or restores a measure of darkness, vice, corruption, bondage, despair, turmoil and misery within me, my family and society. Simple statement: I will neither do, nor be nor teach this unless, to serve a better purpose, I should.
-2 is the defined numerical value (or impact value) given each defined vice which constantly and powerfully produces, preserves or restores darkness, vice, corruption, bondage, despair, turmoil and misery within me, my family and society. Simple statement: I will never do nor be this; or, as part of my lasting true repentance, I will never do nor be this again. I will teach against this as often, as much, and for as long as possible.
