[inquest]

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.

[lugsoul]

And your view of the Establishment Clause not only is inconsistent with every court interpretation of it - ever - but it is also out of step with the view of the very persons who wrote it. There is not a single mention, anywhere, of the level of "organization" that is required for a government endorsement of religion to rise to the level of a violation of the Establishment Clause. Perhaps your view is like Judge Moore's - that we all get to interpret the Constitution in the way that best serves our own ends.