Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
~Jeffrey Borenstein
Yesterday it dawned on me that in our communities, many of the folks who are against government taking more and more rights away from us, offer little freedom to their own children, and many are within the confines of strict religious cults.
Where they are told what to wear and not wear, what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’, what to believe and not believe, where individual freedoms are extinct.
Is it only odd to me that these folks held prisoners in their religion, are claiming they stand for freedom, that these parents who dictate life to their children, fear the loss of freedom?
Do they even know what freedom is?
Most are baptized as children into this religious prison, made to comply with rules and have never know a day of freedom for they were born into captivity.
How can people who have never been free speak of maintaining their free rights?
What rights are they afraid of losing?
How can you stand up for freedom while being held a prisoner in your own life?
Is this only preposterous to me?
What some think of freedom is really being free to move around their cage.
An animal born in a Zoo doesn’t have a clue what it would be like to be free. How it feels to live with out fences.
We are only as free as the space between the fence and us!
And when all fences disappear, we are free.