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Religion in America

= "That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it." -Roger Williams = Find the above picture [|here.]

(Church-State scholar John Swomley:) "The chief political debate at the time the First Amendment was adopted was not between those who wanted to support religion and those who didn’t. It had already been decided in the Constitutional Convention not to give the federal government any power to deal with religion. The problem faced by the first Congress was one of defining a prohibition so that no future Congress would assume an authority that had not been granted under the Constitution." (The solution:) "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . . ." Religion Clauses of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

These opinions are solely due to a lack of knowledge. Find this picture [|here.] =“The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other” -Alexis de Tocqueville.= Given that this was written in the 1830's, substitute the word "liberty" with "violence." What do you think?



Wouldn't it be just a tad bit naive to say that this was what Islam consists of?

Jesse's Reflection on Religion

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