Taking away the freedom of another rescinds your right to that same freedom. Freedom is a huge concept. One can not claim freedom oneself, and at the same time disallow it to others. Freedom based on subjugation is not freedom, but tyranny. Religion is a structure of relationships and necessitates a shared language.
Religion dictates, in many ways more than law, the behavior of a given people.
Neopaganism espouses a doctrine based in honoring and healing the earth and each other. Within this broad definition, are again smaller sets of values, ethics, and morals. It is a lens through which the kaleidoscopic fragments are seen to form an image. As I have said already, when I was a child the seasons governed the lives of my family. Physically, ultimately, omnipotently.