{"id":119,"date":"2005-06-12T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-12T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-04-21T19:09:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T03:09:22","slug":"119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/12\/119\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is freedom?  Does a person has the right to think freely and act freely as long as it doesn&#8217;t cause any harm to anyone?  In a relationship, why both partner had to think alike and act alike?  Can two people with totally different character be in love and live happily and peacefully together?  I think such relationship can exist, if both partners learn how to respect the other half.  One of the evils of religions is that even though they all claim they are teaching tolerance, but in fact they all decline the right to exist of any thoughts contradicts to their core believes.  Why can&#8217;t a good christian fall asleep in church if the priest is boring and he is tired?  If God truly don&#8217;t want people fall asleep in church, he should simply keep everyone awake with supernatural means.  I just couldn&#8217;t understand why Pat make such a big fuss about me sleeping in mass?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is freedom? Does a person has the right to think freely and act freely as long as it doesn&#8217;t cause any harm to anyone? In a relationship, why both partner had to think alike and act alike? Can two people with totally different character be in love and live happily and peacefully together? 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