{"id":2488,"date":"2011-12-20T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/12\/nina-shea-on-religious-freedom.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T09:11:00","slug":"nina-shea-on-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/12\/nina-shea-on-religious-freedom.html","title":{"rendered":"Nina Shea on Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Threats to religious liberty are hitting close to home as a number of states and the federal government impose ideological mandates that restrict the free exercise of religion.<\/p>\n

That said, the problems \u201cfaced by Christians, and others, in the U.S. pale beside what happens elsewhere, as documented by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea in their new book Silenced: How Apostasy & Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, Nina Shea offers a striking comparison between the state of religious freedom at home and abroad: \u201cWe don\u2019t face death squads, torture or labor camps, as millions do elsewhere, so we should be careful in our rhetoric. At the same time, there are growing, dangerous restriction on religious freedom in the U.S., and more so in Europe, and we need to protest and fight them. We can do both, while not confusing their gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Threats to religious liberty are hitting close to home as a number of states and the federal government impose ideological mandates that restrict the free exercise of religion. 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