true, but our laws are also based on freedom of religion, as offensive as the religion may be.
And on the basis of Freedom of Religion, Christians should be outraged. We are under assault.
Making something up and declaring it a religion doesn’t make it so.
I am not suggesting any impingment on any religion.
By placing the Ten Commandments the state is recognizing the foundation of our civilization, not any religion.
Placing a satanic statute does not recognize the foundation of our civilization, it is ALL about religion. In fact it could be seen as an endorsement of religion, not just that but an endorsement of a specific religion.
It’s not a religion, it’s an anti-religion, in terms of traditional understanding. But what is understanding? What are words, beyond grunts and hoots?
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.
Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence§ 1868. Probably at the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration, the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship. An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.
Joseph Story - Commentaries on the Constitution
Cordially,
“true, but our laws are also based on freedom of religion, as offensive as the religion may be.”
I don’t think our Founders envisioned freedom of religion to be a shield for satanism. It is just not possible. They outlawed a tenet of Mormonism - multiple wives.