The crucial lesson, then as now, is that protecting individual religious liberty sometimes requires protecting the religious liberty of communities, including the liberty of those communities to associate narrowly with each other. https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1221885154626625536 …
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The liberty of communities comes less naturally to the framework of classical liberalism, which focuses on the inalienable rights of the individual to be treated as an individual. But both religious & familial communities are essential to true liberty.
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I should write on this at greater length, but the strongest argument by
@RichLowry in his book is that tribalism is ineradicable, & the nation-as-tribe strikes a balance between nearer, narrower forms of tribalism & the disruptive universalism of the empire-as-tribe.2 replies 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread
The nation-as-tribe can contain distinct religious communities without being defined by them. 19th-20th century empires required either official atheism (the Soviets) or appeals to confessional loyalties to glue together varied ethnic/linguistic tribes (the Habsburgs & Ottomans).
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