Quote:Well, eppie said they have had freedom of religion for hundreds of years. Yet, religion seems to be a dying social group. How are religious freedoms protected, and this would be pretty remarkable when they compromise about 1/5th of the population (a clear minority). I wonder how that 1/5th feel about how well their freedoms are protected.Have you considered that increased religious freedom, over time, leads to declining religiosity? It seems abundantly clear looking at a world map coloured by religious belief that the freest countries are the least religious, and contrariwise, that the least free are the most religious.
That seems overwhelmingly more likely than the implication you seem to be dancing around, which is that declining religiosity must be due to (or, more charitably, leads to) increased intolerance of religious freedom.
-Jester