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Does religion restrict freedom?
The word ‘freedom’ is one of the great buzzwords of our culture. In the words of the rock band Queen, we all want to “break free”.
Whether it’s Mel Gibson shouting “Freedom” as he is hung, drawn and quartered, or Martin Luther King crying “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last”, we all want freedom.
But as Rousseau famously observed: “Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains”.
What chains…
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