I am not against freedom of religion, but the majority faith should be respected. As far as I am concerned Orthodox Church in my country must have the special status. Roman catholics and Muslims should have the same rights as orthodox people, but all kinds of proselytism should be forbidden.

I am speaking only about Orthodox countries.

I think I must chime in with a few things.

A fundamental right of every person should be to follow the dictates of their own conscience as they see fit. So not only does error have rights that are enshrined in the Constitution of our country, we all indeed have the right to error (however one wants to judge what error is or isn't). Theocracy has proved itself time and time again to be a fundamentally flawed way to organize societies, and the enforcement of religious edicts and orthodoxies through the combination of church and state has over and over led to massive human tragedies.

Proselytism is in essence a meaningless word now, and is basically used as a blanket phrase to give a negative connotation to evangelism. There is no essential difference between proselytism and evangelism, which means if one opposes proselytism, you essentially stand in opposition to the Christian Gospel narratives which espouse seeking believers wherever they may be found. There is of course the nasty tendency in Orthodox counties to view religion as a matter of national or ethnic association, and to view the government as arbiters of religious authority. This in essence has the double effect of turning Christianity in to a tribal affiliation instead of a supra cultural body of believers, and subverting the church to the state. This will over the long term continue to lead to the slow descent of the Orthodox Church to the status of cultural artifact. Russia is actually a good case in point on both issues, i.e. the suppression of religious freedom and the yoking of religion to nation and race. http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/UzzellProselytize.php

It's also worth noting that if the idea that a majority religion has the right to suppress the rights of other faiths to gain adherents, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in the United States today would have no right or ability to grow though anything but reproduction. The fact is Orthodox Christians can freely seek new adherents in the West, but make every attempt to close off the ability of other groups to do the same in their own countries. It's hypocrisy, and rather blatant to boot.

So not only does error have rights that are enshrined in the Constitution of our country, we all indeed have the right to error (however one wants to judge what error is or isn't.

Theocracy has proved itself time and time again to be a fundamentally flawed way to organize societies, and the enforcement of religious edicts and orthodoxies through the combination of church and state has over and over led to massive human tragedies.

The fact is Orthodox Christians can freely seek new adherents in the West, but make every attempt to close off the ability of other groups to do the same in their own countries. It's hypocrisy, and rather blatant to boot.

But not the right to convert to whatever religion one wishes in conscience to follow right? This is one of the fundamental rights of the human person. We might not like that they convert but we need to protect their freedom to do so and respect their decision also.

How can the faithful "respect" apostasy? Are we to respect Judas's exercise of his freedom? Or Solomon's sacrifices to false gods?
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The Holy Spirit leads the Church into all truth. He does not impose the truth upon it, not dictate its dogma without its consent: "It has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us" (Acts 15:28). If dogma were imposed, it would cease to be truth which frees and would be come a tyranny which kills. The Lord did not save Judas forcibly: "He has the power to win the disciple over, but He did not wish to do good by constraint, not drag anyone to Himself by force". Anything that exists outside of freedom is hell and death.

- Abbot Vasileios of the Stavronikita monastery, Hymn of Entry (St. Vladimir's Press, 1984),p.48-49)

Americanism is the enemy of Christianity.

We respect/tolerate apostasy & al. for the same reason why God endowed us with free wills, and did not destroy Adam when he ate from the tree, and does not smite us down when we sin. (and all this despite the fact that He knew everything we will do from before eternity).

I think it's nearly impossible to make a statement like any church is the "one true" church

There's no reason women shouldn't be priests.

Christendom is the real enemy of Christianity.