Religious Freedom Doesn’t Send People to Hell

Last week an old video resurfaced on Twitter in which John MacArthur, pastor of Los Angeles's Grace Community Church, announced he did not support religious freedom. In the clip, MacArthur argued that supporting religious freedom promotes idolatry and enables the kingdom of darkness -- that "religious freedom is what sends people to hell." Some reports contend that quote is out of context, fitting as it does in a larger argument. Even so, this kind of argument against religious freedom is a familiar one -- usually in reference to somebody else's religion.