{"id":3770,"date":"2025-03-17T14:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:16:39","slug":"freedom-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/03\/17\/freedom-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-11-25-at-6.15.13-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-11-25-at-6.15.13-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-11-25-at-6.15.13-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-11-25-at-6.15.13-AM-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Freedom of Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Feel Free<br \/>\nto Create<br \/>\nYour Own<br \/>\nReligion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019m a Fan of<br \/>\nCreativity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Name It for<br \/>\nYour Favorite<br \/>\nDeity,<br \/>\nYour Respect Is<br \/>\nAdmirable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Write Scriptures<br \/>\nfor It,<br \/>\nCall Them Holy<br \/>\nif It Pleases You.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Put Quotation Marks<br \/>\naround<br \/>\nThe Best Parts,<br \/>\nas if They<br \/>\nWere Spoken by<br \/>\nYour Divinity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Build Temples,<br \/>\nWrite Sacred Anthems,<br \/>\nImagine Them Sung by<br \/>\nChoirs of Angels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Ordain Priests,<br \/>\nTrain Teachers,<br \/>\nSend Missionaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I Will Not Bow,<br \/>\nBut I Respect<br \/>\nAll of It,<br \/>\nSo Long As<br \/>\nYour Heart Is Pure and<br \/>\nPumping Love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Freedom of Religion<br \/>\nIs Your Sacred<br \/>\nRite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Practice Yours With<br \/>\nEase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Just Don\u2019t Tell Me<br \/>\nGod<br \/>\nInvented It.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Getty Images; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Freedom of Religion Feel Free to Create Your Own Religion. I\u2019m a Fan of Creativity. Name It for Your Favorite Deity, Your Respect Is Admirable. Write Scriptures for It, Call Them Holy if It Pleases You. Put Quotation Marks around The Best Parts, as if They Were Spoken by Your Divinity. Build Temples, Write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}