Religious Liberty?

I fully understand that the latest leak of the draft Executive Order allowing Christians to break the law could just be a ruse to divert our attention from some other disaster that the Trump administration is contemplating (one a day it seems), but I want to talk about it anyway.

Although I am neither a trained historian nor trained theologian, I am a Christian and I am pretty comfortable with the following assertions:

The Religious Right is pretty adamant that some threat to Christianity is coming from the secular world. It bears reminding that "religious liberty" is not a biblical concept. There is nothing in the Bible that claims a right to religious liberty. In fact, for almost all of the 2000+ years of the existence of Christianity, the Church has been utterly opposed to the concept. We didn't have heretics burned at the stake and witch trials because the Church (in all its various formulations) was a champion of religious liberty. The Puritans didn't believe in freedom of religion except for the right to create a community that they could govern with their own version of Sharia Law.

On the contrary, religious liberty did not come about until countries were governed by secular principles. To the extent the we have religious liberty in America, it is because it is granted by a secular government and society. The places with the least religious freedom are those that are the least secular.

So don't ever be taken in by the whining of the Religious Right. They just want a license to disobey any law they choose--by the way, this is also very unbiblical--under the smokescreen of incorrect biblical teachings and a false notion of what religious liberty means. And they want to blame the secular society which is responsible for granting that right in the first place.