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If the government can define Social Security as income, ketchup as a vegetable, and any number of rediculous things, certainly it can define islam as an ideology akin to naziism and not a religion. And once recognized as such, gone are the constitutional protections they hide behind.

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If the government can define Social Security as income, ketchup as a vegetable, and any number of rediculous things, certainly it can define islam as an ideology akin to naziism and not a religion.

"Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?” - James Madison

If government gets into the business of deciding what is a religion and what is not, or what is a favored religion and what is not, then what is to prevent some future Democrat administration from defining evangelical Christianity as an ideology and not a religion?