The Religious Freedom Reform Act

It’s time to civilise religion… to keep our society safe.

The term ‘religious freedom’ has attained the air of something that is unequivocal, indisputable, and absolute in its seemingly self-evident truth – but is such unquestionable recognition misplaced?

Surely, now is the time to drag organised religion into the modern age – to civilise religion under the law. If not, why not?

After all, only the primitive thinking mind or the brainwashed could possible think that the promotion of a violent god or antisocial religious beliefs should not come under the exact same level of legal scrutiny and restrictions that are applied to the people.

The First Amendment (1791)

It was the First Amendment of the USA, written in 1791, which set the tone for religious freedoms to be enshrined in law. The First Amendment states that,

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The Universal Declaration on Human Rights (1948)

At the worldwide level, in 1948, the definitive and superlative statement on true Human Rights, The UN Declaration on Human Rights 1948 (UNDHR), stated in its Article 2 that,

“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”

The European Convention on Human Rights ECHR (1950), Article 9
later copied into 
The UK’s Human Rights Act 1998, Article 9

Two years later in 1950, under the newly formed European Council, the above UNDHR Article 2 of the UNDHR (which was not legally binding) was expanded by the European Convention on Human Rights ECHR (which was legally binding), to include a second paragraph in its Article 9.

Furthermore, the UK’s Human Rights Act 1998, Article 9, Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, directly copies the text on religious rights from that European Convention on Human Rights 1950, Article 9, stating that,

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.

2. Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

The true purpose of the ECHR – which I will be discussing further in future posts and casts – was to undermine Human Rights through the introduction of ‘civil rights’, which are actually rights given to the state, the corporation, and ‘authorised’ groups, and which are in direct opposition to the Human Rights of the UNDHR (1948), which were designed to only protect each and every sovereign individual – equally, and without privilege or prejudice.

However, in Article 9, the ECHR, which added the second paragraph back in 1950 with the intention to undermine Christianity in Europe and the UK, has actually included some key text that sets a precedent for now implementing a Religious Freedom Reform Act, as discussed further below, which will bring about a far more civilised continuation of organised religion within society.

The UK’s Equality Act (2010)

Finally, we come to the UK’s Equality Act (2010), which depressingly sinks into the quagmire of legal gobbledygook designed to conceal an endless number of devils in the detail, thereby opening it up to the potential for immense governmental and legal abuse. However, I will try to summarise what it says regarding protection on religious grounds.

The Equality Act 2010 states that a person must not be discriminated against because:
they are (or are not) of a particular religion;
they hold (or do not hold) a particular philosophical belief;
someone thinks they are of a particular religion or hold a particular belief, aka “discrimination by perception”;
they are connected to someone who has a religion or belief, aka “discrimination by association”.
According to the Equality Act, a religion or belief can mean any that has a clear structure and belief system, or indeed any lack of religion, aka “non-belief”.

QUESTION EVERYTHING

I was raised to “question everything”. It is easy to question that which we do not believe in, but not so easy to question those things that appear to be unquestionable within the accepted narrative of the day. However, that is exactly where the things that should be questioned above all, are most often concealed.

What I began to notice about civil rights (generally and falsely disguised as Human Rights) was that not only were they increasingly providing ever more protection to certain institutions, which as systems of control often purposefully undermined individual Human Rights, but also that there were no minimum standards required for these institutions to be able to attain these powerful legal protections.

In other words, there is nothing specifically mentioned regarding the nature of an institution, such as an organised religion, that would automatically preclude it from being protected under the ECHR or UK’s Human Rights Act. There are no checks and balances.

Let us not be under any illusion about this. When an individual is given certain protections under law for their organised religious ‘beliefs’, it is the religious institution that they follow that actually gains those protections; not the individual follower. Therefore, protection of any beliefs relating to organised religion have absolutely no connection to human rights whatsoever. Only protections of individual spiritual beliefs, and speech thereof, relate to human rights.

This brings us to the core reason why a Religious Freedom Reform Act is so necessary. If an individual in Britain, and in many other countries throughout the world, were to state some of that which is enshrined in the so-called sacred texts of the major religions, they could be arrested and charged with incitement to violence, racism, promotion of illicit behaviour, or hate crimes. If they were to act on what some of those texts instruct or call for, they would be guilty of crimes including the most serious crimes, such as human trafficking, enslavement, the raping of children, murder, and genocide.

The law is currently complicit in protecting such writings and rhetoric. Rather than being criminalised, organised religions are given a carte blanche pass of legal protection. It makes a complete mockery of our parliament, the justice system as a whole, and most of all, the people who gave their trust to such supposedly democratic institutions.

Unlike many of those who operate within the compromised establishment, I am not a book burner. I do not believe in altering or falsely depicting history, in order to serve an ideological agenda. However, I do fully understand that there is one element of our society that may be justifiably banned – at least from public condonation, promotion and funding – and that is physical and organised violence, and the glorification, cultivation, and tutelage of it.

Let’s be honest with ourselves. There are some in society who adore violence. I would hope that you are above that level of base existence, but if you are, you may well be under the naive assumption that everyone thinks in a way that is very similar to you. That is simply not the case. Psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists infest our society and prey upon the higher personality types who think and act with empathy.

Those with such antisocial mental disorders are often masters at hiding their highly dangerous personas that lie beneath, and are therefore ideal candidates to occupy the key positions of power in society: in politics, business, and certainly not least of all, in religion.

CRIMINALISING RELIGIOUS CULTURE CRIMES

Organised religion is for the first time in centuries becoming a front-running political matter in western society. This fact cannot and must not be ignored. Immediate legal measures need to be taken, in order to bring to heel all organised religions, in regards to anything within their texts or teachings that is contradictory to core western values or British legal obligations.

The traditional values and unalienable sovereign rights of the indigenous peoples of the England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are the foundational watershed of all legitimate domestic law. Those laws that have fallen below that minimum line of civility and evolved social governance must be eradicated from the statute books, and only laws that are approved by the people, and for the people, must be created to replace them.

Thankfully, the European Convention on Human Rights 1950, Article 9, and subsequently the UK’s Human Rights Act 1998, Article 9, on Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, added the important Clause 2 that sets a precedent for the restrictions that I am proposing, when it stated that,

“2. Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.“

Indeed, to not legally place proper limitations on all religions, in regards to such crimes against humanity as the following, would be to show a clear failure in applying the above fundamental legal standards, in respect to public safety, public order, and the moral conventions of the indigenous culture.

If a religion (authorised or generally recognised text, cleric, agent, representative) preaches, teaches, incites or promotes in any way: violence; religious or racial supremacy; enslavement, persecution or killing of non-believers, non-adherents or non-members; or any other form of lifestyle, activity or belief that directly contravenes British law, it must be banned from all governmental support, and from all public forms of adherence, promotion, and funding.

Those who wish to adjust their religion to eliminate all such texts and teachings may be allowed to return to the public space under ongoing monitoring.

The purpose of a Religious Freedom Reform Act is not to undermine the fundamental right of religious freedom, but simply to bring organised religion in line with the law that governs the rest of us. I am only talking about crimes that have always been understand as being wholly abhorrent and totally unacceptable within any civilised society. Those who would dare to stand in the way of criminalising the acceptance, promotion or schooling of such crimes against humanity by any institution or individual do not belong in such a civilised society.

It’s Time to End ‘Culture Criminality’

The real culture war can only end when culture criminality is stopped.

STOP CONDONING CULTURE CRIMES.