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In proclaiming the four freedoms as the firm foundations of the kind of   
world we want to establish,  Our Chief Executive said; "That kind of a   
world is the very antithesis of the so-called 'new order' of tyranny which   
the dictators wish to create with the crash of a bomb. To that 'new order'   
    we oppose the greater conception--the moral order."     
 
                                                            
 
 
For the security of a moral order religion is indispensable. Washington   
expressed a truism when he wrote that "reason and experience both forbid   
us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious   
principles. It is clear, then, that in a new order based on moral   
principles the proscription or persecution of relicion can have no place.   
In this practical sense freedom of religion is the first of the four   
                         freedoms.                          
 
                                                            
 
 
It is better to speak of "freedom of religion" than of "freedom of worship."  
The history of Communism in Russia and Nazizm in Germany tells us why. The   
Soviet Constitution recognizes "freedom of worship and freedom of anti-  
religious propaganda"--but not freedom of religlous teaching. There  
is not freedom of religion in Communist Russia even in theory--  
much less in practice. In Germany under the Nazis--,whom a far-seeing pope   
denounced in 1937 as the "destroyers of the Christian West"--the churches   
are still open but persecution of religion is systematic and progressive.   
There is not freedom of religion in Nazi Germany. It is heartening, then,   
to note that the Manifesto of the United Nations ranks  
"religious freedom" rather than mere "freedom of worship" among the fruits   
of victory in a common struggle against brutal forces seeking to subjugate   
                         the world.                         
 
                                                            
 
 
We can rightly hold the United Nations to guarantee  
freedom of religion in the world which in victory they will reshape. But   
we shall ever find the strongest guarantee of freedom of religion in the   
conviction on the part of those who rule the destinies of nation, that our   
first President was right when he said: 'Of all the dispositions and   
habits which lead to political prosperity religion and morality are the   
indispensable supports"; and that President Roosevelt is right when, in   
listing three indispensable institutions, he says: "The first is religion.   
It is the source of the other two--democracy and international good  
                          faith. "