How about this for a high-tech definition:
Our culture, for instance that contemplated by the founders of our nation, distinguishes between murderous cults and "groups and beliefs" that personally seek to promote, elevate and preserve the good in humans.
One can clearly see the result when there is confusion on this issue; history is quite helpful in this regard.
Have a nice weekend.
Oh it’s quite easy to see from a spiritual point of view how an evil-deity centered faith like Islam (when believed in, the nominal adherents are another question) sneaks in. It’s a lie-generating machine. Through self contradictions it snuffs out man’s sense of truth. Like the terms liberal and gay do today (they describe groups that are illiberal and militantly grim, respectively).
If you mean the constitutional sense, well yes. When it spoke about a benign and nondiscriminatory attitude towards religion in fact it first meant variations of Christianity. As soon as that meant “any world religion” then the hell bound handcarts were boarded, from the point of view of governmental support. Because Islam is in that group. Nobody said it was any kind of “good” religion. Because of its shield of lies, it is able to generate a group of decent acting people who will still give it a nod.