Freedom for and from religion

Speaking in Rome, SCOTUS justice Alito said: "Religious liberty is under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power. It also probably grows out of something dark and deep in the human DNA -- a tendency to distrust and dislike people who are not like ourselves."

Humans are a tribal species. We instinctively sort others into in-groups and out-groups. Alito isn't wrong here, but the same could be said of organized religions as well (see, e.g., The Crusades, The Spanish Inquisition). The irony is especially precious coming from Alito, who dislikes and distrusts women who believe in reproductive choice.

Yes, let's have religious liberty and freedom from religious persecution. But Alito should also humbly recall this advice: "first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye" (Matthew 7:5).

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/samuel-alito-religious-liberty-notre-dame-rome/index.html