Comments on: Pew Forum – Rising Tide of Global Restrictions on Religion http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/09/21/pew-forum-rising-tide-global-restrictions-religion/ I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth. Sat, 25 May 2013 03:43:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steve Hayes http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/09/21/pew-forum-rising-tide-global-restrictions-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-89421 Steve Hayes Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:45:04 +0000 http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/?p=26749#comment-89421 It’s interesting that there was a remarkable relaxing of such restrictions in 1989-90 in many countries, especially in Eastern Europe, but also here in southern Africa as well.

But in countries like the USA all sorts of freedoms have been diminished, and not just religious ones, so perhaps it’s the swing of the pendulum, and authoritarianism is on the upswing again.

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