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The Constitution is very clear: all religions are equal, and Christianity is more equal than the others:
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names . . .
The First Amendment of course overrides any contradictory elements in the body of the Constitution, but the framers and ratifiers of the First Amendment did not think there were any such contradictions.
The body of the Constitution does not contain a bill of rights because the framers thought that the Constitution as written without a BOR had the same, and more liberal, protection of rights implied within it.

Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

addresses the danger that any BOR, including the first 8 amendments to the Constitution, could inadvertently limit our rights - that the BOR would come to represent a ceiling over, not a floor under, our rights. As indeed it is often argued today: "if it’s not explicitly forbidden to the government in the Constitution, we can get away with it.”

Thus Christ (“our Lord,” conventionally thought to have been born 1787 years before the signing of the Constitution) and his church are “more equal," even if the Constitution does not explicitly say so. The Christian religion must not be persecuted. If a conflict is thought to exist with other religions, that question is not to be decided against Christians.
Particularly if a religion’s holy book mandates the domination of Christians by physical violence . . .