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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social |
Yep! The Ten Commandments include specific mandates about how and when believers should worship their God. The Constitution only mentions religion to directly repudiate the government’s power to issue those kinds of mandates.
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Kevin Donoghue
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If "thou shalt not bear false witness" is law, Alex Jones should be doing life without parole and lots more with him.
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Tucker Drake
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And it was many of the religious leaders at the convention who pushed for separation as they knew how bad it sucked when you didn’t belong to a government approved religion.
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Doug Hibbard
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Don't forget the Constitution also forbids religion from being a requirement for holding office, which is a repudiation of the ancient Israelites' mode of government
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RK
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Madison took one look at “you shall have no other gods before me” and noped right out.
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PSUbowler
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I'm pretty sure freedom of religion is also meant to include freedom FROM religion.
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Technically this is not true of the establishment clause of the first amendment, which both forbade the national government from establishing a national church and from *dis*establishing any state church (which most states had in 1789). The modern conception is post incorporation doctrine.
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Dan Sandler
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Sure. But if you think about it with a “let me tell a story what the founders would have said if everything I say about them is a lie” mindset - Thomas absolutely believes that the imaginary founders in his head would have been all in for religion.
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Rob Honeycutt
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It’s interesting to me that, like the Bible, conservatives treat the Constitution as the absolute word with “originalism.” And, like the Bible, they turn around and randomly discard the bits they don’t like or promote the bits they like. And, more often than not, just make shit up.
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Not Yet Post Democracy Joshua Vaughan
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The Constitution is an enactment of a wholly human secular authority that directly removes the sacred from power. 1000 years of prior devastation in Europe was adequate proof that the excessively potent mix of religion and politics was utterly destructive to both spheres of existence.
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