What is freedom of religion? Religion is an organised set of belief system that governs and defines a society. Religion functions at a social level as a reference of principles that guides all legal and political institutions. As a deductive form of knowledge, religion and its tenets, are derived from a priori assumptions (ie god or gods) that can not be proven or disproven. Religions are mutually exclusive systems, since the primary assumption of these systems can not coexist with a differing set. How can a society function, when thousand different religions scream to set policies and regulations?

The practical effect of religious "freedom" is to marginalise religion from public sphere and, in essence, outlaw religion from the sociopolitical sphere. Religious freedom can only exist in atheist states, in which political decisions are formed without religious input. Thus, the incompatibility of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and all other religious systems with humanist democracy, in which the consensus of state actors become the supreme power, rather than the divine. Religion is already outlawed and censored from public consciousness in humanist secular democracies, other than as a personal fad or philosophical preference. Would formalising such arrangement in legal statutes be too much of a hassle for humanist democracies?