The 1st amendment addressed freedom of Christianity (Baptist, Protestant, etc. ) not any religion. Founders knew other religions bring strife and destruction
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@nounounou
We wonder if the OP knows why the Smithsonian Institute has made the Jefferson Bible public domain. Certainly why they preserved the original?
Would Junior here think it isn’t heretical…?!
You know what you’ll be admitting if you so much as think of saying it is, Junior…!
<@KeithInc. >
Speaking as a Brit, considering what was done with my country’s history in the anime series “Princess Principal” it certainly proves one thing:
Everything’s better with Steampunk.
Just ask Sunrise & Katsuhiro “Akira” Otomo, re. “Steamboy”.
OK, if the First Amendment was meant to only protect (or give freedom to) Christianity, do you really not see the major problem that comes to my mind? Who gets to say who’s a Christian and who’s not? Do Catholics count if you’re a Protestant or vice versa? Or how about Mormons, for that matter? How about something like Unitarian Universalism, which has roots in Christianity, and has Christian members, along with those of other faiths and of none?
In Juror: “The 1st amendment addressed freedom of Christianity (Baptist, Protestant, etc.)! Non-Christian religions were never supposed to be regarded as anything but Satanic Counterfeits!! In addition, Trump DID win in 2020! J6 wasn’t an Insurrection; The Steal was! Obama WAS born in Kenya and there ARE Deep Underground Military Bases where Atheists AKA Satanists get up to all sorts of nasty evil!!”
The Puritans came over because the Church of England was 1) too Catholic for them and 2) because the government was cracking down on non conformists, depending on the exact decade of migration. Likewise the colony of Virginia butted heads with the English government under Cromwell. Maryland was originally founded for Roman Catholics to be able to practice their religion in peace.
Even within a small section of Christianity, there was conflict and this was well known to the Founding Fathers. Hence the separation of church and state.
I read recently - admittedly, an opinion piece in someone’s blog - that conservatives tell stories about the past to affirm the truths (or rather what they consider to be truths) of the present. It’s true now because it’s always been true. The US is destined to be a theocracy, and so we will use a collection misunderstood and/or out-of context historical facts and sometimes stuff which got changed over time due to a generational game of telephone (i.e. historical myths) to show how this was the destiny the Founders always had in mind.
I’m a bit wary of explanations which seem a bit overly simplistic, but it does at least line up with the fact that the US Republican party is very prone to creating political narratives which ignore the chronological order of events.
Historical revisionism, to push falsehoods about the founders and the constitution. And to deny that they hoped to avoid the problems of any kind of theocracy, especially the Christian ones they were leaving behind and familiar with. As others noted, there will always exist some overzealous of a particular doctrine attempting to force it on everyone or to suppress those who they consider heretic, as has happened within Christianity itself. An unacceptable evil that should not be allowed...
Ultimately, even if they DID mean for only Christainity to be protected by the amendment, they also gave the Supreme Court the job of interpreting the Constitution.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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