Ruling Against Religious Law Versus Religious Freedom

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jan 30, 2022 at 15:53

The premise of banning religion in America has an appearance of going against the ideas of freedom of religion as was proposed in the formation of America; but again, that is still a missed notion of what was proposed, that using the First Amendment to control religious adherence was badly misconstrued when applying that to the case of separation of Church and State, which was manipulated against spiritual influences for good that sought to fight against the evil that attempted to debilitate Constitutional protections of freedom. It is what is under attack today.

What Reader Prashant seems to imply is Islam should not be interpreted as being attacked as a religion for the supposed freedom of religious; except that as an ideology, its religious aspirations are being used in the same way that the influences similar to the Church of England were being used to suppress freedoms of religious expressions in America. This was the original intent of religious freedom in America. Using Church imposed fiats without true spiritual guidance in place of Biblically guided spiritual rule of law in issues of governance was the ruling intent of the First Amendment. Islamic fiats are under the same; and allowing Islam to violate the First Amendment is no different that what was imposed against overruling a papal interference in American jurisprudence.

Destroying the First Amendment has been the intended target of restricting American freedoms since the very beginning; so even in imposing COVID restrictions across an America under attack from abroad, the attacks continue.

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