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Religious Freedom Restoration Act

There are several Religious Freedom Restoration Acts in the United States. In general, they attempt, under the guise of religious freedom, to restore the right to discriminate against minorities. Most news coverage focuses on what is often the intended purpose of these laws: discrimination against LGBT communities by Christians. However, the laws could effectively allow for other behaviours by other religions.
==Typical provisions==
The following is the meat of the federal RFRA, upon which many state statutes were modeled:
This effectively restores the so-called Sherbert test of Sherbert v. Verner. Despite there being very little secret about the intended effect (allowing discrimination against others), this rule (a) is not guaranteed to achieve that effect (in particular, the application of the federal version to state laws was struck as unconstitutional, with its application to federal law standing as a rule of construction) and (b) can lead to some other undesired effects (see below).
==Indiana doesn't want me==
Indiana's 2015 law — largely a brainchild of then-governor and former vice president Mike Pence — of this name has brought the existence of such acts into the limelight, and has brought on something of a backlash, with a looming boycottIndiana boycott urged after 'religious freedom' law passes causing the state of Georgia to reconsider passing its own version of the law.Georgia House Committee Cancels Meeting On 'Religious Freedom' Bill The Governor of Connecticut has banned state-funded travel to Indiana, even though Connecticut has its own RFRA law; the crucial difference is that Connecticut also has a law protecting minorities from discrimination.RFRA prompts Connecticut governor to issue order about travel to Indiana This has all led to a certain amount of backpedalling in Indiana, with "clarification" of the law's reach in the works.Indiana Legislators Say They’ll Clarify Beliefs Law Meanwhile, over at the department of unintended consequences, the First Church of Cannabis has plans to make merry in the Hoosier state.What does "hoosier" mean anyway?Indiana religious freedom law unwittingly ushers in first church of cannabis for weed worshipers
==See also==
*Religious freedom
==References==
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Religious freedom

Religious freedom was originally synonymous with freedom of religion, the basic right to choose which deity (if any) to worship. However, more recently, the phrase "religious freedom" and its variation "religious liberty" have been hijacked by the Religious Right and twisted from their original meaning into disingenuous code words referring to a self-drawn license to discriminate and control other people's lives in the name of one's own preferred ceiling cat.
==As a synonym for "freedom of religion"== 
 
==As a political code-word== 
The phrases "religious freedom" and "religious liberty" are often invoked, with the retention of the sense mentioned in the previous part of the article, as a euphemism for a mandate to control the lives of others and force them to adhere to the tenets of one's own religion. The use of the phrase is a manifestation of a persecution complex, and it allows the perpetrators and advocates of intolerance and oppression to portray themselves as victims whose basic rights are violated by any movement toward equal rights for other demographics, e.g. LGBTQ people being able to marry the person of their choice or being protected from workplace discrimination, women making their own decisions on abortion, transgender people living as their identified gender, couples using birth control, unmarried people having sex, or students not being forced to undergo intelligent design lessons or participate in school prayer. In short, this use of the phrase "religious freedom" is less about advancing true freedom of religion than about undermining this very principle as it pertains to others.
In 2016, the Chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission wrote in a government report that "the phrases 'religious liberty' and 'religious freedom' will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Christian supremacy or any form of intolerance." In 2017, the Trump administration designed a so-called "religious liberty" executive order which, sure enough, uses this concept as a cover for further entrenching Christian privilege and the ability to discriminate against LGBTQ people, women, and children in foster care.
==See also== 
*Conservative correctness
*DARVO
*Freedom of religion 
*Homophobia 
*Hypocrisy
*Persecution complex
==External links== 
*How to determine if your religious liberty is being threatened in just 10 quick questions 
*Religious Freedom? by M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP
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Religious pluralism

Religious pluralism is a policy stating that all religions and belief systems (theistic, non-theistic, etc.) are in essentials equally valid and there is no reason why they should not co-exist with one another.
==Pluralistic traditions==
There are several religious traditions that explicitly affirm a pluralistic worldview, including Unitarian Universalism (originating in Christianity) and the Baha'i faith (originating in Islam).
Also, many pre-Abrahamic pagan traditions, although not explicitly pluralistic, did not maintain that their particular cult was the "one true faith" in exclusion of all others.Though given that they tended to be tied to the specific people who practiced them, why would they need to?
==Criticism of religious pluralism==
Religious pluralism may deny the existence of absolute truth, holding that, in contravention of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's quip, people are entitled to their own facts as well as their own opinions. This can lead to the belief that crank ideas are just as valid as empirical and logical facts.http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religious-pluralism/
Specifically, religious pluralism may be used to promote anti-science ideas, since it can convince people that scientific topics (evolution, global warming, gluons) and science as a whole is another point of view or belief system and not absolute fact.http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/lie/articles/lie/evolution-religion
Another issue is that religious pluralism grants equal validity to religious traditions that do not themselves accept religious pluralism. In addition to the obvious potential for paradox-of-tolerance problems, this has led to such phemonena as Islamic fundamentalists and some religious pluralists agreeing on an agenda of banning certain criticisms of Islam, under labels such as "defamation of religion".
==See also==
*Ecumenism
==Notes==
==References==
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Remus Cernea

Remus Cernea (1974-) (Romanian pronunciation: /'remus 't͡ʃerne̯a/) is a Romanian activist, agnostic, former politician, and advocate for the separation of church and state. For instance, in 2004, the government of Romania planned the demolition of a park in order to make way for a Romanian Orthodox church, and Cernea launched a successful campaign to oppose the demolition.Sărbătorim 5 Ani de la Salvarea Parcului Carol! Nov 13th, 2009.
Entering electoral politics, Remus was nominated as the candidate for the Green Party of Romania for the 2009 Presidential Election. Remus Cernea şi-a lansat candidatura la Preşedinţie, Mediafax.ro. However, later some Green Party members claimed he would "lead the Green Party under Satanist principles" and "turn the party into a homosexual one",Verzii s-au lepadat de Remus Cernea pentru ca este pro-gay si pro-satanism, 14 November 2010. so he left it some time afterwards and started his own party, the Green Movement. He ran for deputy of a district (though not as a Green Movement candidate) and won with 57.23% of the votes, serving from 2012 to 2016. Cine sunt cei mai votaţi politicieni, Romania Libera, 12 December 2012. In the Romanian Parliament, Cernea chose to swear on the Constitution rather than (as is usual) the Bible. Deputatul Remus Cernea NU a vrut să JURE pe Biblie în Parlament, Romania Libera, 20 December 2012..
==External links==
*His website (In Romanian)
==References==
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Republic Standard

Republic Standard was a white nationalist, neo-fascist pseudo-news website, similar to the Right Stuff and Infowars. It bills itself as a "Conservative Thought & Culture Magazine". Evidence of the sloppiness of its web design can be found in its copyright notice reading "All Right Reserved" and in its homepage linking to several dead links, as well as to its now-suspended Twitter account.Homepage Among the contributors is Julien Delhez, who has written an article for the site defending the London Conference on Intelligence,Reflections on the London Conference on Intelligence as well as several book reviews in the racist pseudojournal Mankind Quarterly.Genomics indicted. Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics (Book Review) The editor is Ash Sharp.Compendium of Sources: The American Far Right, Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, New Right, White Nationalists, Ethnostate Separatists, Euro-Identitarians, White Genocide Conspiracy Theorists, White Nativists, New Age Conspiracism, Holocaust Deniers, and Self-Identified Neo-Nazis Part 5: QAnon-Zach Hudak
==External links==
*The webshite itself (warning: dead link, and contained racist bullshit when it was still online)
==References==
 
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Responding to Sam Burke's Argument That Christianity Entails Anti-Natalism

"Responding to Sam Burke's Argument that Christianity Entails Anti-Natalism"Responding to Sam Burke's Argument That Christianity Entails Anti-Natalism by Evan Minton (February 20, 2019) Cerebral Faith. is an entry written by Evan Minton on his blog Cerebral Faith and reposted on Frank Turek's website CrossExamined.org,Minton, Evan. Responding to Sam Burke's Argument that Christianity Entails Anti-Natalism attempting to argue that the doctrine of Hell does not make procreation immoral.
The following is a side-by-side rebuttal.
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==First, God Has Made Salvation Available to All, Anyone Damned Has Only Themselves to Blame== 
 
==Secondly, He Is Assuming That Parents Have No More Say in The Eternal Destiny of their Children Than Birthing Them.== 
 
 
==Thirdly, While Jesus Said More Would Be In Hell Than Heaven, He Never Gave Exact Numbers==
==Finally, Annihilationism Is an Option== 
==Final observations==
In defending an extreme doctrine that involves the concept of infinity while denying and side-stepping the logical implications of that doctrine for the Hell-believer, Minton is trying to have his cake and eat it too. The combination of his first and second arguments here amounts to the Hell-believing parent saying to their child: "Yes, in bringing you into the world I created the infinite risk that you might suffer for ever and ever, but I think I've made it up to you adequately by doing my best to minimise that risk that I created. It doesn't matter that I was the one who set you up to fail in the first place; if you fail it's entirely your own fault." The position that belief or disbelief is entirely a choice flies in the face of the real-life situations and psychology of those who de-convert due to no longer feeling convinced by the tenets of or evidence for Christianity — often not through their own choice, but through a complex plethora of information, experiences, and other factors that lead them to have a change of heart. 
All this aside, the arguments presented by Minton here do not change the fact that, based on a belief in Hell, to procreate is to create the risk of infinite suffering for a new soul. Because anything infinite necessarily dwarfs anything finite, the moral imperative on the shoulders of anyone who truly believes in eternal Hell is to practice and promote antinatalism — even, if possible, to the extent of attempting to bring about the end of all procreation on earth so that the human race dies out, if this will save even one future person (let alone thousands, millions or billions) from incurring the risk of eternal suffering.
==See also==
*Birth as a Grave Misfortune
*Essay:Believers in Hell should not procreate, and should embrace antinatalism
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Response bias

Response bias is the name of a group of cognitive biases which commonly influence the results of surveys, questionnaires, interviews, and polls. Like statistics, it's a great way to lie while still being honest, although honest mistakes are also common.
==Types==
===Acquiescence bias===
Acquiescence bias is the tendency for people to respond positively ("yeah, sure") to survey questions when in doubt.
For example, 55% of respondents agree and 42% disagree with the statement, "The best way to ensure peace is through military strength", but when given the choice between the former and " is the best way to ensure peace", only 33% agree with the first statement, and 55% percent agree with the second.http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/questionnaire-design/
The Pew Research Center recommends that it is better practice to offer respondents a choice between alternative statements, than to simply ask whether they agree with something.
===Social desirability bias===
Respondents eschew answers that are considered socially undesirable. This is especially common on topics such as drugs, immigration, personal finances, health, religion, sex, and personal achievements.
Some examples:
*About 15% of US males report visiting a prostitute at least once in their life, but other surveys also show that men report a lot more sexual partners than women do, so something doesn't add up here. Once you account for the prostitution, the numbers do seem to add up, though, and you end up with about 23% of males who've paid for sex.Prostitution and the sex discrepancy in reported number of sexual partners
*Responses will differ on topics such as feminism or sex depending on the gender of the researcher (especially when the participant is male).
===Demand characteristics===
This is the tendency of participants to (subconsciously) fit their behaviour to what is perceived to be the expected or desired behaviour.
Some examples:
*Rape myths were more accepted when the researcher was dressed conservatively than when the researcher was dressed provocatively.Paradoxical Effect of Surveyor's Conservative versus Provocative Clothing on Rape Myth Acceptance of Males and Females
*When informed that the survey's interest was menstrual cycle symptoms, women reported significantly more negative symptoms than women who were not told the survey's interest.http://sociologyindex.com/demand_characteristic.htm
===Extreme responding===
The tendency to only select the most extreme responses in a survey where one is expected to choose from a scale (eg. to choose "Strongly agree" over "somewhat agree").
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Restart

Restart is a far-right Iranian dissident movement and terrorist group founded by Mohammad Hosseini. It was inspired by and is connected to QAnon, an American far-right movement and one of the many groups responsible for the January 6th riot.QAnon Goes to Iran Foreign Policy By Ariane Tabatabai
The group was founded in the United States and operates outside of Iran. Their website spreads conspiracy theories and misinformation on every topic imaginable, being biased in favor of right wing anti-Iranian figures like Donald Trump and various European politicians.Ariane Tabatabai on the Spread of Conspiracy Theories to Iran in Foreign Policy Alliance for Securing Democracy Ariane Tabatabai, July 16, 2020
Much like QAnon, the group believes in a grand conspiracy against them and makes frequent calls for violence and vandalism, even against (or especially against) others who disagree with them. The group’s name came from the term for restarting a computer (yeah, real original and clever) and is a reference for making their followers “think in new ways” (as a cult does). Their leader and founder, Hosseini, also makes these calls for violence as an extreme measure for his plans to overthrow the current Iranian regime.Arsonists Attacked Tehran Religious Site Before Current Unrest Began Iran News by Radio FardaRestart; A danger to civil movements. Iran Wire Aida Qajar
==General conspiracism==
The group supports Donald Trump and his policies towards Iran as a strong measure against the Islamic regime. One prominent conspiracy theory about the Ayatollah among the group is that the real Ruhollah Kohminei died or went into a coma and the current leader is a body double or a clone (not unlike how many Russian conspiracy theorists believe the same about Vladimir Putin).The App Powering the Uprising in Iran, Where Some Channels Pushed for Violence. The Daily BeastJames Cheng-Morris, New pictures fuel conspiracy theories that Vladimir Putin has a body double. Yahoo News UK, 29 June 2023.
==See also==
*QAnon - the American original and inspiration.
==External links==
*Their website
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Restoration movement

The Restoration Movement is a Christian movement started in the early 19th century by the Campbellites, who believed all the churches had fallen into apostasy and they were restoring the original church (sound familiar?). They reject the term 'denomination' and often insist the correct rendering of their name is 'church [or churches] of Christ', leaving church uncapitalized. They hold beliefs close to most other evangelical Christians', but are perhaps best known for their rejection of the use of musical instruments in church services, because they are not specifically mentioned in the New Testament, so whatever you do make sure to set your cellphone to vibrate; don't leave it on ring tone.
The Campbellite movement was also known as the Stone-Campbell and some scholars group the churches of Christ, and several other new religious movements of the 19th century (such as Mormonism and Seventh-day Adventism), in the separate category of Restorationism, distinct from Protestantism. 
One of their early leaders in the 1800s was David Lipscomb, who has seen renewed interest lately for his individualist anarchism and Christian pacifism views, neither of which appears to be influential at all in the modern Church of Christ.
==Related liberal denominations==
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a rather tame mainline denomination with Campbellite roots.
==Unrelated liberal denominations==
The is a theologically and socially liberal denomination with no relation to the Church of Christ. They used to be known as the Congregational Church.
==Another unrelated denomination (not so much liberal)==
The Church of Christ, Scientist has a similar name, but despite the "scientist" part, it doesn't actually involve real science, with its followers rejecting modern medicine in favor of praying sickness away... well, trying to, anyway.
==Nuttery-buttery splinter movements==
Peter J. Peters is a Church of Christ minister who holds beliefs more in line with Christian Identity.
Mormonism has some roots in the Campbellite movement. Sidney Rigdon, one of Joseph Smith, Jr.'s close associates, had been a Campbellite before converting, and many of Joseph Smith's early Mormon converts came from the Campbellites, including some entire congregations who converted en masse. Smith called his early Mormon church the "Church of Christ", before tacking on the more ostentatious bits.
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ was the work of a Church of Christ minister who claimed he obtained the text from the Akashic Records.
The Boston Church of Christ is a related denomination best known for the Discipling and Shepherding movement.
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Resurrection

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Resurrection refers to the revival of previously dead humans to some degree of existence on Earth, which can range from limping about the place, moaning, and feasting on humans to shifting a massive boulder out of one's resting place in order to walk the Earth as the Son of God once again.
The Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all refer at some point in their holy texts to some degree of resurrection of the dead on Judgment Day, to face God and what awaits them in the afterlife.
Although the three Abrahamic religions — as well as several other religions — make reference to the occurrence of resurrection, there is no solid evidence of a human corpse becoming reanimated and walking on Earth after death, either with or without a soul.
==Christianity==
A central tenet of the mainstream Christian faith is that Jesus Christ died and rose again, as we all shall. Unfortunately, there's scant evidence for this.
==Medical resurrection==
Revival of the "dead" can be achieved in limited instances through medical equipment such as defibrillators and techniques such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation. However, this usually only occurs in very short time frames (a few minutes) between death and "resurrection" and assumes that all bodily functions have not completely shut down — which really makes these near-death experiences, not really returning from the dead. Even worse, the results are almost never like they are in Hollywood. Among other things, the recently revived generally throw up.
In pre-modern times, the concept of death was not very well understood. A person could be in what is now known as a (faint pulse, non-response to stimuli, no voluntary movement), appear to the uninformed as "dead", and then spontaneously revive after a few days.
==Other uses==
The notion of "resurrection" also has associations today with the revival of deceased humans to walk the Earth, devoid of a soul. These walking undead creatures, known as "zombies" (except in the movie that started this conception of them, Night of the Living Dead, where they're called "ghouls"), have several characteristics that differentiate them from the average living human:
* Zombies are dead for all intents and purposes, and often exhibit signs of decay.
* Zombies walk around emitting low moaning noises.Not to be confused with English people.
* Zombies feast on the brains of humans.Whether some humans also engage in this activity is disputable.
No zombie holocaust has yet been recorded. Or maybe that's because no one was left alive to record it... eh? Yeah... think about it.
Count Lev Tolstoy, who had an interest in Christian ideas, called his 1899 novel 
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