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What our constitution says is that Congress should not make laws about religion, not that Congress allows religions equally.

Are you saying you'd like Congress to pick and choose and rank religions and "allow" more or less of them as they see fit? Because that's what it sounds like.

That’s the correct reading of the Establishment Clause, whattajoke. Original intent was to prohibit a national State Church. Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion meant make no law.

We’ve got one now, though.

It’s atheist.

Are you saying you'd like Congress to pick and choose and rank religions and "allow" more or less of them as they see fit? Because that's what it sounds like.

You were the one that introduced the concept of government ranking religions and allowing them. I rejected the notion that the government has been empowered to allow religion--which would imply that the government has the power to disallow religion in some cases. I will grant that you proposed a system of ranking that was equal--quite egalitarian of you--but I am not offering an alternative system of government ranking religion--I am insisting (along with First Amendment to back me) that there be NO system of ranking religion by government. I am asserting that the government is out of its jurisdiction to ban a book from a public area because the book is religious.