For most people “freedom” means the security to be what they are. From this egocentric understanding of liberty they easily lapse into thinking that freedom requires security (i.e. policing of others) to be as they are.
Again the one : many :: egocentricity : others to be as one’s self.
When people say that god is patient with man's sins, that is just a polite way of saying that he is an indifferent, cowardly bastard that doesn't do anything to rectify his evolutionary mistake.
Politics is not a matter of personal preference (a peculiarly bourgeois idea). Politics is a question of necessity -- a matter of understanding what is required by the physical circumstances and our time and place and condition in history.