{"id":2524,"date":"2013-04-18T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2018-03-08T20:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:51:44","slug":"conscience-vs-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2524","title":{"rendered":"Conscience vs. Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">Peter Lawler<\/p>\n<p>So <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertylawsite.org\/2013\/04\/16\/the-limits-of-james-madisons-memorial-and-remonstrance\/\">Richard Reinsch<\/a><\/em> has a good article on the limits of James Madison\u2019s religious thought\u2013as expressed in the overrated MEMORIAL AND REMONSTRANCE.\u00a0 There the duty each of us has to our Creator is private or merely \u201cconscientious.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a limit to government, to be sure.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a personal\u2013or not social\u2013limit.\u00a0 It\u2019s far from clear that Madison is saying that government is limited by the freedom the church as an organized body of thought and action. . . 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