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Religious Freedom and Agency

Religious Freedom and Agency

My son, Ryan, is a chaplain in the US Navy. He is also one of the professionals who are not professional evaluators I interviewed. I've shared, with his and his wife's permission, several interviews we had together about his views on evaluation and agency as a chaplain, as an Air Force band trombonist, and as a father, along with interviews I've done with his wife Nicki.

Today he sent an email about religious freedom and I have posted below a couple of relevant links that summarize some of his and my assumptions and beliefs that guide our evaluation lives and the evaluation lives of many people I've interviewed. I think these assumptions are actually at the heart of most evaluators' belief systems whether or not they have articulated such or even thought about it explicitly. Probably, even if they are atheists and don't believe God gave them their freedom to use their agency to declare themselves such, I believe these are fundamental beliefs of most humans.

As indicated in other posts to this blog I've made recently, I see our purpose for coming to earth as God's spiritual children as an opportunity to learn to evaluate or to use our agency in a wide range of situations.

Regarding religious freedom see https://www.lds.org/topics/religious-freedom?lang=eng

Regarding agency see https://www.lds.org/topics/agency?lang=eng

Transcribe and insert here a segment from Ryan's oral presentation about his responsibility as a chaplain to protect all he serves in their right to use their agency to use their freedom of religion however they choose.

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