Freedom of religion was only to protect the free exercise of Christianity...
Not to allow the free exercise of all the false religions
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So, when the First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion," that only refers to Christianity? Cool; we can have shari'a law after all.
Considering that christianity is the newest kid on the theological block, the rest of us see your religion as false. Then there's the issue of all of the elements you hijacked from pre-christian religions.
In other words, you're not a special (or unique) little snowflake. You're part of a system that doesn't have even a tiny spark of originality to it. Stealing from other people's religions to create the toxic soup of a religion early christians concocted doesn't invalidate the faiths that came before yours.
Get over yourself, Nonny.
"Anonymous coward" what a marvelously apt name! But you left out "stupid", not to mention "revisionist historian", "conservative", "Christian apologist", and "asshole", among others.
Well, TBH he's right. Historically speaking the founding fathers didn't envision a scenario where followers of a non-Christian would have enough voice in society to demand recognition. The Native American and African religions were suppressed, "for the savages' own good", and they had no power to argue against it. But then again, if the American constitution is to be interpreted according to the intentions of the legislators, then that includes the 2nd amendment. Think the OP and likeminded peeps would welcome that?
This many years later,
with the original statement clearly meaning ALL religions
with the amendments and clarifications from the original draftsmen, the analysis by lawmakers from that day to now, all supporting that meaning,
and still to this day this ridiculous claim, ignoring all pertinent thing of it and from it, this dishonest stunt to insist on the opposite.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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