Not at all. Sacred writings are defined as the word of G-D and immutable. They govern your “salvation” in the afterlife. The Constitution is the word of man and as such is completely mutable, by no greater authority than man. Indeed, while you cannot find in the Bible even suggestions of methods of minor editation, the Constitution was edited ten times as it was enacted and ever since.
My point is it is the job of religious texts to condition you for the best possible outcome in the afterlife. The Constitution describes only what the Federal procedures are for the mortal phase of our existence - limited but separate. What irritates me is when people use the Bible, or any other religious text, to tell me how to live or the government to govern.
She nails it.
“My point is it is the job of religious texts to condition you for the best possible outcome in the afterlife.”
I would argue that, although that statement of yours is indeed true, it doesn’t nearly come close enough to describe what a “religious text” (specifically the Bible) is all about. Religion literally means “re-linking”, i.e. re-connecting yourself to the divine. The point of true religion is to prepare you for life in the here and now, not just (or even) in the life hereafter. By following the precepts of God, we make ourselves better people, and thereby we better the lives of others.
This is the crux of Christian opposition to Humanistic, Liberal Secularism. Those folk, for all their often very laudable intentions, attempt to change us by changing society, by means of laws, and rules, and regulations and propoganda. The Christian way is to concentrate on improving the individual, who THEN goes on to improve the common lot, for after all, what is “society” but the sum of all of our individual thoughts and actions?