Does the individual identify with the organization and, if so, how does this identity manifest itself?
How do you understand who you are in relation to the organization?
Ponder how you fit into the organization that is the nation, the state
Why, we wonder, and how, did revolutionary-era Americans choose to adopt a radical regime of religious freedom?
Their reasons did not rely on any idealistic consensus that religion must be separate from politics and instead owed everything to their deep suspicion of power in the hands of flawed humanity.
Informed by centuries of European history, revolutionary-era Americans believed that governments empowered to coerce belief – long the common European practice – became tyrannical.
History proved that, where religion was concerned, governments resorted to coercion.
Consequently, to provide a barrier against tyranny, key American patriots believed that protecting religious freedom was vital.
But old ways died hard.
