With about 470 million followers, Buddhism one of the major world religions, constitutionally protected in the USA. It offers another choice to dismiss the notion of being Christian, and unfortunately the folks who drafted the 1st Amendment saw only religion through the lens of the only religion they could have fathomed; Christianity - and its many sects, which were what prompted 1A. They could not have imagined Satanism, Islam, VooDoo and many others would find a loophole in their words.
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.
Trump on a Christianity-dismissive statue?
Why to I both hate it and love it at the same time?
With about 470 million followers, Buddhism one of the major world religions, constitutionally protected in the USA. It offers another choice to dismiss the notion of being Christian, and unfortunately the folks who drafted the 1st Amendment saw only religion through the lens of the only religion they could have fathomed; Christianity - and its many sects, which were what prompted 1A. They could not have imagined Satanism, Islam, VooDoo and many others would find a loophole in their words.
Few people are both Christian and Buddhist.
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.