[Persuasion]

Thanks for your comments I'm glad to see some fellow supporters about! :)

[Cvengr]

In regards to freedom of religion, the etymology of the term originally might be better interpretted today as freedom of 'denomination'. A relationship with God on His terms was the only recognized true belief when those political terms were coined. E.g. One might seek to obey the laws of God and laws of man as a Methodist, a Catholic, Anabaptist, Presbyterian, or as a Jew. They all based their doctrines upon study of the Word of God and sought to worship Him on His terms.

Judeo-Christian acknowledgment of the Messiah understood God's providencial relationship with the Jews and the Gentile times via Christ. Those who reject God are simply unregenerate.

Present luke-warm definitions of religion which allow any form of spiritism, or belief can also be taken to an extreme. One could respect a 'religion' based entirely upon criminality. Such a freedom is self-contradictory.

The main reason we colloquially accept beliefs other than Judeo-Christianity, IMHO, is that most people simply don't study Scripture and associate anything dealing with the spiritual domain or belief of supernatural beings as qualification of 'religion'.

By no means did the founding fathers interpret the Islamic, "Convert or be killed" policy as a comparable 'religion'.