Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
A Webster definition of religion: The service and worship of God or the supernatural. (There are other definitions)
A Webster definition of Christianity: The religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the bible as sacred scripture.
This amendment was ratified in the 1790,s, but I don't know the amount of time or thought that was put into it. I have to assume that that they meant the religion of Christianity, but that isn't what they said in the Constitution. Just using the word "religion" in the Constitution means that any group that claims to be a religion has the same rights as and must be treated the same as the Christian religion. Now, how do you set up a religiously run government with this type of law governing it? You can't!!!
There are many Muslims in a lot of countries and they are broken down into tribe's with-in the countries. They fight and kill each other and anyone else like dogs that doesn't believe like them, and there are 15 million of them already in this country. In our Christian religion we don't call them tribes, but denominations. We don't physically fight each other, but we sure like to bicker. Now, how would you like to set up a government that could handle this type of mess. We would be a whole lot like some of the countries we consider nut cases and dangerous. I would love to see our country continue to have our laws established by men and women that are of the Christian religion. I would love for it to be the only religion in the USA with none others allowed in our country, but that is not and will not be possible I'm afraid. We have to and need to have separation of Church and State under the Constitution we live under, But we don't have to have separation of God from hearts of the men and women who we elect to run this country. We must continue to do our best to put people in office that belong to the Christian Religion. I don't believe I want any other so called religion to have more power with-in our government then what little we Christians have now.
2007-01-07
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