Should all Religion be "Free"?

Should all religion be free in the world?

We have freedom of speech... but speech is still regulated by common law.

You cannot go into a movie theatre and yell "fire!" If you yell profanity at a police officer they will find some reason to arrest you, and make it stick...

Consider Waco Texas' Branch Davidians... Was that not like yelling, "fire!"?

Who will decide what religions are free? Courts? Public vote? Our legislative body? Thugs?

What criterion would deem a religion (or parts therof) illegal? Is the total equal to the sum of its parts?

How shall we define hate and barbarity as it relates to religion?

i.e. It is okay to drop bombs, but not okay to behead someone ...and the debate goes back and forth endlessly...

It is not okay to hate people based on race, but race is often associated with religion (as much as we would like to deny that fact).

There are those who are of a certain race who do not practice religion and those who are not of a certain race but they practice a religion not typically associated with their own race.

How do we separate the apparent hate contained within a "holy" book from those who claim that theire own version of holy book is the one and only source for faith and practice?

...practice becomes doctrine and doctrine becomes law.

Can religion ever be fully liberated from the hate contained within?

There is a force at work in the world where adoration suspends the conscience; some refer to this as stupidity, but when stupidity becomes common practice then is it "folly to be wise"?

I have heard it said that all religions contain some kernel of truth or people would not follow them.

But what about the untruth? What about the bold faced lies? What about the barbarity that accompanies that kernel of truth?

We see that religion is not always accompanied with ethics...

If religion is a road map it would surely lead one off a cliff.

We all have a destination we seek in life, be it prosperity, health and some even desire an afterlife.

If on the road to that destination we take a right turn, then a left turn and so on, if only one turn is out of line (or a lie) we will never reach our desired outcome or end up lost.

A religion needs pure truth or it will only lead those with less a moral constitution astray.

Some say only the heart may know the way, but even the heart can be fickle and change like the wind.

Contrarily the mind is often too rigid and without feeling.

The soul is too ethereal and unbridled strength is a travesty of power.

Only through social debate and consideration of all things will we find a way to rid ourselves of the misdirection contained within the religions.

Religious people say, "teach the debate" so they can sneak their creationism into science class.

Should we teach of Cain murdering his brother to kindergarten children? How about Lot sleeping with his daughters? Or the genocide, the murder of innocents in Egypt and the crucifixion of an innocent man? Or that Eve and Adam were not obedient while naked in the garden?

Does this not also defile the innocent?

How do we teach the debate when the debate has a mature rating and simply steals away the youth of a child? Should we not shelter children from such so they can grow up without the darkness that life often escalates into? Some call this, "freedom from the law".

Maybe to instill independence and free thinking in a child is the best we can do while banning practices that clearly are outside the boundaries of what is civilized?

Yet over time, what is withheld becomes the only way to liberty to some...

And as we repeat history, as religion rears its ugly head in the mindlessness of the human condition we seem to de-evolve.

There must be a way to teach independence from religion while still leaving it free or is religion just too grand an illusion for some to resist?