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To: ThreePantherEightyDuce
But before anything else, I respect the wisdom concerning religious tolerance in the Constitution.

When the Constitution was written, there were only two religions within this nation, Judaism and Christianity. The freedom of religion clauses also only applied to the federal government level as many states AFTER, let me repeat AFTER the Constitution was affirmed established their own state churches. The main reason that freedom of religion was an issue in the first place was because some of the denominations were receiving heat from the COE and vice versa. Paine and his crew were few and far between. The Founders never intended for the worship of everything from a tree to the moon

57 posted on 02/09/2002 7:28:32 PM PST by billbears
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To: billbears
"When the Constitution was written, there were only two religions within this nation, Judaism and Christianity."

I see.... Indians were just Godless heathens whose religions were not worthy of notice to you. I disagree. The Constitution was carefully framed to cover ALL religions. If it had not, then it would have specified those two religions.

People came to this land to get away from narrow minded view on religion. Like that which is displayed by you in your post.

71 posted on 02/10/2002 5:30:21 AM PST by ThreePantherEightyDuce
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