Core tenet of The Baptists
The soul is free — the state has no say in faith.
Soul liberty: Baptists argued religious freedom from prison cells long before constitutions agreed.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Soul competency — sometimes soul liberty — is the doctrine that each person stands before God individually and no authority may compel belief, and Baptists turned it into a political program. Roger Williams founded Rhode Island on it in 1636 with the first genuine religious liberty guarantee in the Americas, and Baptist advocacy was significant in the drafting of the First Amendment. It is one of the clearest cases of a theological premise producing a constitutional principle.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
No inherited sin, and nobody in the doorway.
Islam
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The letter to Kansas.
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster · story
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What the laws of physics permit should not be restrained by the laws of states.
The Missionary Church of Kopimism
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One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.
The Satanic Temple
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Parrhesia — speak, and do not soften it.
Cynicism · precept
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The Sunday Assembly · figure
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