"Faith enshrines freedom." And especially the Christian faith.
No other religious system - save Judaism, which is Christianity's foundation - provides such freedom and tolerance. Yes, tolerance.
Christianity is truly the most tolerant of worldviews or religions. In my opinion, it is the most tolerant because true, Biblical Christianity is based on "relationship" rather than religion. We Christians cannot force anyone to be "saved" or reconciled to God. Only He can do that. Believers can only present the life-changing message... and then live it (the more difficult aspect).
"In an age that seems to believe that Christianity is an obstacle to liberty it will prove provocative to insist, contrary to such belief, that [our] Christian faith is essential to liberty’s very existence.
"Yet, as counter-intuitive as it may seem to disciples of the progressivist zeitgeist, it must be insisted that faith enshrines freedom. Without the shrine that faith erects to freedom, the liberties that we take for granted will be eroded and ultimately destroyed. Faith preserves freedom. It protects it. It insists upon it. Where there is faith there is freedom. Where faith falters, so does freedom. This truth, so uncomfortably perplexing for so many of our contemporaries, was encapsulated by G. K. Chesterton when he asserted that 'the modern world, with its modern movements, is living on its Catholic capital. It is using, and using up, the truths that remain to it out of the old treasury of Christendom.'[1]"
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