"A man said that freedom of speech and freedom of religion were indestructibly bound to each other Master. (1989 04 02 Eindhoven)"
"The man was a twit. The two are the same, meaning both the right to speak un-True Words, as if they were Natural facts. It is the old Paradox of J.S.Mill again."
"I do not understand."
"Was it not Mill (among many others), who proposed two totally incompatible ideas, namely that Man should be free to form his own opinions (ideas), AND be free to express them? The second one prevents the first, because, then, your ideas are formed by others, i.e. are not of yourself, not free, and vice versa. From such a paradox we have to choose one, but this, in accordance with the Way, with truth. We choose the second one then, but with the strict limitation that what is expressed shall be either truth, or, when unproven or phantasy, shall be accompanied by saying that-, offering it as-, a theory only, as fable, as art, opinion of a limited Mind. That is the Right of our children, therefore our Duty to them.
This man was an ex-minister of ... education." [93]