Religious freedom and the need for religious practice and Integrative testimonial

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of religious freedom from its various edges. It examines how this freedom is confronted with historical processes such as secularization and took on new meaning following the advent of Postmodernism. After the decline of that modernity which gave birth to communism, fascism and to a scientistic, agnostic but not anticlerical totalitarianism, religious freedom was provided by the citizen of the global village as his right to believe and disbelieve not to profess or some kind of worship. In this vein, this paper highlights and reflects on this mutating (sometimes arbitrary or capricious) of the believer to skeptic and vice versa; and how this can be overcome creencial bellicosity understanding religious freedom as a commitment from a testimonial and integrative religious practice. Praxis proposal demands awareness about self-censorship that is imposed believer advised by a logocentrism, social and cultural, since the Renaissance, emphasizes the triumph of science over religion. I have to feel ashamed for being a backward, I qualification suggested by scientism for those who profess a religion; the believer faces the challenge of following the principles of their faith, letting these impact on all aspects of his life; without falling into fundamentalist or intolerance towards other faiths or cults attitudes