[Religious freedom is] the right to “exercise” or live your religion without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.3SO what are the acceptable restraints, not just to religious freedom, but to all our Constitutionally enumerated rights and freedoms if the test is “when necessary to protect health and safety”? What restraint cannot be judged by control-obsessed Utopians to be necessary for "health and safety" — necessary for our own good or for the good of society or the planet? It shouldn’t be that hard to discern possibilities considering our extended exposure to the “live exercise”4 called COVID-19:
• Forced closure of businessesFor those paying attention, the live exercise (escalating control) continues with the mantra "health and safety" taking center stage with a key component being the "health" of the planet. How far have and could other measures of control go for "health and safety"?
• Forced masking
• Prohibited public gatherings (including for worship, funerals, weddings, etc.)
• Prohibited singing in public
• Forced experimental vax for employment, school, transplant, travel, gatherings, etc. etc.
• Forced quarantines and / or isolation even within households
• Threatened removal and / or destruction of pets
• Banned outdoor activities even for exercise
• Snitch lines
• Restricted medicines
• Debanking
• Prosecution for lawful protesting
• & on and on.
• No walking, fishing, picnicking in the woods5Some of these items may seem unimaginable in Western society, but then who could have imagined what was done during COVID-19?
• killing of healthy (at risk???) animals6
• no eating / consuming of ... (you name it: meat, sugar, candy, certain herbs, certain natural remedies, etc.)
• enforced dieting for unacceptable BMI
• govt. enforced treatment protocols for various diseases
• things one can and cannot watch, read, discuss, write about
• how, where, and how often one can travel
• 15-minute towns and cities
• what and how many animals one can own, even on a farm / ranch
• compelled retrofitting of homes to meet climate standards
• yearly, mandatory home inspections for evolving code compliance
• number of children per family
• & on and on.
Evil is obsessed with inverting the Good and will co-opt, corrupt, or weaponize every Good that it can as the agenda to totally control or destroy the world goes on with the help of so many.
Let us never forget:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.7----------------------------------------/
1. I first became aware of the “health and safety” wording in limiting freedoms through a friend’s reference to this podcast:
The Uncomfortable Truth About Religious Freedom
(Connor Boyack | August 17, 2025 | Time 48:16 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7slU4-a4-M&t=566s
Subsequently, I found the same working in various other places (See footnote 2; bold emphasis added):
2. • Understanding Religious Freedom:
What do we mean when we talk about religious freedom?
At its most basic, religious freedom means the right to choose, change, declare, and act upon your faith. It includes freedom to worship but is much more than that. It’s the right to “exercise” or live your religion without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
• “12. Government cannot discriminate against religious believers. All people have a fundamental right to believe, worship, and exercise their religious beliefs as they wish, so long as it doesn’t harm the health and safety of others.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
• Current Events and Social Discussion 1:
“While religious liberty is our first freedom, we need to focus on creating a space where everyone is free to act upon their core beliefs and values so long as they aren’t harming the health or safety of others.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
• Understanding My Role:
5. ...Just as the Savior allowed everyone to make their own choices, we need to seek to understand others’ beliefs and allow them to live as they believe, as long as they don’t harm the health or safety of others.
• “Religious freedom is more than just the freedom to believe what you want. It’s also the freedom to talk about and act on your core beliefs without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.” https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/religious-freedom?lang=eng
3. Full quote: “Religious freedom is not absolute. Limits on religious activities are appropriate where necessary to protect compelling interests, such as the life, property, health, or safety of others. But such limitations should be truly necessary, rather than an excuse for abridging religious freedom.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/religious-freedom-the-basics?lang=eng
4. live exercise
military practice using real bullets, military exercise which simulates real combat
https://english_contemporary.en-academic.com/110476/live_exercise
- pattern now being used for propaganda, political, social, medical, and other experimentation on humans without their consent or knowledge
5. https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2025/08/get-out-of-woods.html
6. Canada Orders MASS CULL of 400 Ostriches Despite No Infections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2r8VqK9c_c&list=WL&index=2
7. This was first used[1] by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its "Reply to the Governor" (11 Nov. 1755)
An earlier variant by Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack (1738): "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
Many paraphrased derivatives of this have often become attributed to Franklin:
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.
Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
