Baptists were persecuted at the time and many had been imprisoned for their faith. The First Amendment would not exist but for the Baptists. Now to answer your questions;
How do we reconcile our Nation's interest in allowing all religions to practice freely with the common notion that Christianity is superior to all religions?
They are free to practice their religion, as always. Nobody has ever stopped them practicing their religion. But they are not free to change the principles upon which this great nation was founded. Christian principles.
The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights are founded upon Christian Principles.
Muslims, Hindus or others cannot defend the US Constitution because their religions cannot support the underlying principles.
Muslims believe Shariiah law should replace the US Constitution, for instance.
‘Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth’ --Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
I will fight to the death to prevent Shariiah law from usurping the US Constitution.
get it? If the fight is in this land then so be it.
There is no such thing as an absence of "religion". Secularism is a religion, a creed, in so much it is a common system of beliefs. (It is a very weak system of beliefs that cannot withstand strong religious beliefs, which is why secular Europe is becoming Muslim Europe) Popular secularism today is a common set of values upon which decisions are made. They are values created by arrogant men and proven by history to be the basis of tyranny, until destroyed by a prevailaing religion.
Secularism did not create the liberties you enjoy today. God did, and Christians created a government to defend them. Christians believe those liberties should be protected with their lives.
Christians created a nation free for all. If you destroy the Christian basis of this nation you will destroy the liberty that Christians protect. (It's like being invited into a wealthy home and then kicking out the owners of the home who created the wealth to build the house in the first place. That home is soon trashed and destroyed.)
Just look at the ever more secular nations of Europe. They have liberated nobody, and they are unable to defend their own freedoms.
They arrogantly believe governments of men grant liberties, not God.
Because of their arrogance Europe is now a Muslim land. In 5 years more Muslims will attend mosques than Brits attend Church in the UK.
Muslims do not believe in secularism. Muslims do not believe in the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
The fact that you would give them an opportunity to destroy those liberties speaks volumes about your brainwashing.
How do we exclusively teach Christianity in our public schools without making it an "establishment of religion"?
Simple. You let the schools be free and responsive to the local families. Each school should be free to reflect the predominant community values. That means if a community is 70% Jewish then the local school should heavily refeltc those values. etc etc
Compulsory education laws must also be eliminated. They are slave laws for children. (Imagine forcing children into government buildings at gunpoint for most of the working hours of a week).
Refusing to recognize the religion of a community is a direct insult to that community and arrogantly presumes that the values that remain in the school, as defined by the government, are far superior to that childs religious belief.
Secular values are inferior and destructive to the human condition. They are evil. Evil exists where God is rejected.
Nowhere in history can you prove otherwise.
Damn well said...