ording to your faith which means changing some habits (like after the witness in Islam, Muslims can’t drink wine for example.) in your life so that you act accordingly with your new faith like the baptism in Christianity and the witness in Islam and thus when you do these two things for example, you can’t change back your mind. And then after you act according to your faith you have to practice your religion like going to the church eating from the flesh of Jesus and drinking his blood. In Islam the witness, fasting, praying, alms giving, and pilgrimage. And sure every religion has ethics and ethics are practiced within a certain religion and what might be allowed in this religion might not be allowed in the other religion. For example in Islam one can marry four wives while the same thing is not true in Christianity. In Christianity, one can drink wine while drinking wine in Islam is banned. Freedom, however, means a moment or moments marked by the ability to do or say whatever someone wants at a certain time in a certain place. This notion, as we have noticed from the definition, is directly seen to collide with the notion of religion. Religions put certain rules and limitations for its believers on how to act and what to speak within this religion. And from what I had previously mentioned having faith in a certain religion is to first believe in the words upon hearing them. And thus if you believe you are obliged to act accordingly with your religion. And thus the freedom, absolute freedom of man is being limited by religions. To clarify and explain this more let me make a small historic preview on how religions had limited man’s freedom and this can be by talking about: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Even before religions existed, when there was many gods people didn’t have religions in the meaning of what we know today about religions but they use to have some “taboos” which are the...
