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To: inquest
Only if you believe there is only one view of who that Creator is.

Well, you've made yourself pretty clear, if you don't see such practices in Muslim countries as being an "establishment" of religion. With that kind of interpretation, you may as well take the establishment clause out of the Constitution.

952 posted on 08/22/2003 10:05:37 AM PDT by lugsoul
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To: lugsoul
Only if you believe there is only one view of who that Creator is.

Really? What if you don't believe there's a Creator at all? Is that not a religious belief? If so, then why isn't belief in a Creator a religious belief?

Well, you've made yourself pretty clear, if you don't see such practices in Muslim countries as being an "establishment" of religion. With that kind of interpretation, you may as well take the establishment clause out of the Constitution.

I've made myself clear as to the distinction between the establishment clause and the free-exercise clause, and I'll do it again: the first prohibits government from setting up a religious organization, the second prohibits it from interfering with other people's religious activities.

955 posted on 08/22/2003 10:12:14 AM PDT by inquest (We are NOT the world)
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