Why is a commitment to Religious Freedom so hard to live out?

Religious Freedom Under Threat in the US and Abroad, Says Q Conference Speaker

BY MORGAN LEE , CHRISTIAN POST

NASHVILLE—Religious freedom and the common good was among the topics discussed Wednesday during the annual three-day Q Conference which is built around the belief that “Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.”

During a session about religious freedom and persecution throughout the world, speaker Andy Crouch, executive editor of Christianity Today, suggested that religious freedom should be measured by the degree to which a society extends it to its most vulnerable and marginalized. He also commented that its value, globally, is at risk in a greater way than ever before “in any of our lifetimes.”

“There are all kinds of [situations] in which a privileged, powerful majority can flourish,” Crouch said. “But the far more demanding test of any society is [how it treats its] most vulnerable, youngest, oldest, the most frail, the most marginalized…”

…”Religious freedom should protect you if you’re a Jew in Saudi Arabia, if you’re a Palestinian in Israel, if you’re a Christian in Malaysia or if you’re a Muslim in Nashville. … Being denied from acting out your faith commitments in public is one of the deepest denials of human flourishing,” added Crouch…(read full article at the Christian Post)