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Originally Posted by d2_e4
I never got why religion is lumped in with all the other fundamental rights. What's so special about some ancient superstition which is objectively total bullshit that we need to protect the right of people to practice their silly rituals associated with it?
It could have been included inside freedom of speech and in a way in the american constitution it actually is (both are in the 1st amendment).
But the main idea is that in the west we had several atrocious wars, often among ourselves, because of religious bullshit, so we thought it would be smart to make it as illegal as possible to mess with one another on the basis of religion, while at the same time trying to avoid any religion to impose it's moral prefernces on people who weren't members of that religion.
But when you have a country that is founded by people fleeing religious persecution because they had particularly bizzarre religious views, is it that surprising freedom of religion is very important for that country?