No You Don’t Have Freedom From Religion in The United States

Alex Ashton
5 min readOct 31, 2022

But you do have freedom from government endorsement or involvement in religion.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence and corporate media grifter Larry Kudlow whined on Fox Business about “radical lefties” wanting to “scrap religion.”

“These lefties want to scrap religion, Mike Pence, and I think it’s a terrible mistake,” cried Kudlow.

Okay sure, Larry. Maybe there are some radical lefties out there who would love a society free of religion. They are few and far between, but let’s assume they exist. They pose no realistic threat to your freedom of religion. The religion that you found after a couple of divorces, a nasty coke habit and a career driven by unadulterated greed. It helped you overcome the divorces and the coke habit, but you continue to promote greed (and make laughably bad predictions on the economy), so I guess religion helping you with two out of three vices ain’t bad. But no one serious wants to scrap your freedom to be religious.

“Well, the radical left believes that the freedom of religion is the freedom from religion,” added former Vice President Mike Pence.

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Alex Ashton

History, culture, family, religion, data, and technology from a center-left, civil libertarian, middle-class perspective. Publisher: The Missing Middle.