You do realize the Crusades... which kinda had a tiny bit to do with taking the holy lands back from the Islamics... happened before the folks who drafted the 1st amendment. Like, LONG before. Also not uncommon for the Christians to burn people at the stake for supposedly worshiping the devil and practicing voodoo so clearly they were familiar with satanism and voodoo. SO, if they intended for it to only apply to the Christians, they would have said so, because they were damn sure familiar with the others.
You do realize that USA had no part in the Crusades which happened around year 1200. America had not even been "discovered" yet.
Don't know why you mentioned it. Nobody but Ben Franklin would have even had that knowledge...and he probably did .. but ..didn't input it in the Declaration of Independence...probably because there were no Muslims in the New World. at that time or were so few they were not important enough to consider.
James Madison is credited with writing the 1st Amendment.
He was born in Virginia about 60 years after the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. He didn't have the internet or a door to door Encyclopedia salesman to inform him of the past in another State. Unless you have proof to the contrary,wicthcraft would not have even been on his radar or scope of knowledge.
1A' religious aspect was written ONLY to prescribe no discrimination against Catholics seeking to run for public office in a majority Protestant America.
It was part of history, something people back then seemed to have a better grasp of than most folks today. Same as the witch burnings, which in Britain totaled around 200k between 1484 and 1750 when one of the Popes made it a killing offense. Something that went on for hundreds of years in western Europe, up to and past the time the first colonists arrived, and you don't think the founding fathers knew anything about it? These were educated men. They read. They studied. And yeah, they knew history.
You're talking here about British-European history
to try to prove a point about The 1st Amendment
which mentioned religion only because of ONE MATTER;
Catholics wanted to run for public office.
This is very well documented by the guy who WROTE it
so it does not matter what other aspect you think influenced it.
No sensible argument to the contrary can be made about it
and so persisting shows you are trying to pervert the philosophy
which loomed the very fabric of America. Are you her enemy?
You do realize the Crusades... which kinda had a tiny bit to do with taking the holy lands back from the Islamics... happened before the folks who drafted the 1st amendment. Like, LONG before. Also not uncommon for the Christians to burn people at the stake for supposedly worshiping the devil and practicing voodoo so clearly they were familiar with satanism and voodoo. SO, if they intended for it to only apply to the Christians, they would have said so, because they were damn sure familiar with the others.
You do realize that USA had no part in the Crusades which happened around year 1200. America had not even been "discovered" yet.
Don't know why you mentioned it. Nobody but Ben Franklin would have even had that knowledge...and he probably did .. but ..didn't input it in the Declaration of Independence...probably because there were no Muslims in the New World. at that time or were so few they were not important enough to consider.
James Madison is credited with writing the 1st Amendment.
He was born in Virginia about 60 years after the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. He didn't have the internet or a door to door Encyclopedia salesman to inform him of the past in another State. Unless you have proof to the contrary,wicthcraft would not have even been on his radar or scope of knowledge.
1A' religious aspect was written ONLY to prescribe no discrimination against Catholics seeking to run for public office in a majority Protestant America.
Absolutely false on every level. Again.
So you are saying that Muslims are good for America
and you will continue to degrade what made it great.
I said no such thing.
Why must you lie?
Only Ben Franklin.
It was part of history, something people back then seemed to have a better grasp of than most folks today. Same as the witch burnings, which in Britain totaled around 200k between 1484 and 1750 when one of the Popes made it a killing offense. Something that went on for hundreds of years in western Europe, up to and past the time the first colonists arrived, and you don't think the founding fathers knew anything about it? These were educated men. They read. They studied. And yeah, they knew history.
You're talking here about British-European history
to try to prove a point about The 1st Amendment
which mentioned religion only because of ONE MATTER;
Catholics wanted to run for public office.
This is very well documented by the guy who WROTE it
so it does not matter what other aspect you think influenced it.
No sensible argument to the contrary can be made about it
and so persisting shows you are trying to pervert the philosophy
which loomed the very fabric of America. Are you her enemy?
Nope. Just bored. And amused at how worked up you are over it. :D