nach seiner Fasson selig werden

• nach seiner Façon selig werden

Literally, “to go to heaven in one’s own fashion”. After a note that Frederick the Great wrote on a memorandum concerning the role of the Catholic Church, suggesting that every Prussian subject should be able to do so.

nach seiner Fasson selig werden (irregular, third-person singular present wird nach seiner Fasson selig, past tense wurde nach seiner Fasson selig or (archaic) ward nach seiner Fasson selig, past participle nach seiner Fasson selig geworden, past subjunctive würde nach seiner Fasson selig, auxiliary sein)

1. (idiomatic) to enjoy one’s freedom in religious or (by extension) other matters of life; used in contexts advocating tolerance

• The phrase now almost always has a positive connotation, but was formerly considered much more controversial because, beyond religious tolerance, it expresses a sense of religious relativism.

• leben und leben lassen