I mean, for me, it means both. I’m a big believer in FDR’s concept of four freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Freedom of worship shouldn’t really be a thing.
Replace it with Freedom of Expression. It’ll cover that and so much more.
Personally, I kinda roll Freedom of Expression into Freedom of Speech. Because any form of expression is essentially speech, even if it doesn’t use words to speak.
That’s where I’d roll religion.
But to me expression is so much more than speech, it’s how you dress, how you present, how you think, how you act, etc.
Religion is long term something we as a species should be moving away from. The other freedoms aren’t.
Freedom to throw 200,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. Fuck FDR.
Yeah, most people in history say amazing things and then turn out to be fucking monsters. Especially in American history.
But just because they’re awful fucking hypocrites doesn’t mean what they said has no value.
