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To: Jamestown1630
Judaism is the root of Christianity, at least so far as I was taught. Of all the Christians I have known in my life, I don't know of any that don't regard Judaism as the root of their own religion.

In this regard, I think it is a special case, and I will address your point further on a later date.

84 posted on 09/16/2017 6:26:13 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Yet actual, living Jews were barred from holding public office, and have been hated and discriminated against by many “Christians” throughout history - regardless of this ‘special case’ status that you perceive.

The various state religious ‘tests’ for holding public office were incompatible with the spirit of the Constitution, clearly exhibiting a preference for one or some religions over others. But some of them remained long after we had become a much more religiously heterogeneous society. They were only finally ended by the Supreme Court in 1961 - in a case that actually involved someone of no faith at all, in my own state of Maryland: an atheist who had been barred from becoming a notary.

Religion is an intensely personal issue between a human being and God. You can’t ‘make’ anyone religious or even know if anyone truly is or not; you can’t keep those who do profess faith from actually being outright fakes and hypocrites. (And I’d much rather have an honest atheist or agnostic in a public office than a hypocritical Christian.)

There should be no religious tests for public office, and should never have been, under this Constitution.


85 posted on 09/16/2017 8:21:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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