Authorizing Religion
Although the 1st Amendment does not allow for establishing one religion over another, by eliminating Christianity as the federal government's religion of choice (achieved by Article 6's interdiction against Christian …
Authorizing Religion
Although the 1st Amendment does not allow for establishing one religion over another, by eliminating Christianity as the federal government's religion of choice (achieved by Article 6's interdiction against Christian test oaths), Amendment 1 authorized equality for all non-Christian and even anti-christian religions. When the Constitution failed to recognize Christian monotheism, it allowed Amendment 1 to fill the void by authorizing pagan polytheism.
Amendment 1 did exactly what the framers proclaimed it could not do: it prohibited the exercise of monotheistic Christianity (except within the confines of its church buildings) and established polytheism in its place. This explains the government's double standard regarding Christian and non-Christian religions. For example, court participants entering the United States District Court of Appeals for the Middle District of Alabama must walk by a statue of Themis, the Greek goddess of justice. And yet, on November 18, 2002, this very court ruled that Judge Roy Moore's Ten Commandments Monument violated the 1st Amendment's Establishment Clause. Despite many Christians' protests against this hypocrisy, it was in keeping with the inevitable repercussions of the 1st Amendment.
In response to the U.S. Supreme Court's verdict in Engle v. Vitale, which barred school-sponsored prayer, [Illuminati pedophile] Dr. Billy Graham declared, "This is another step towards the secularization of the United States.... The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."[29] Tragically, Graham's latter statement has become a mantra. Christians hang their religious hat on Amendment 1, as if some great moral principle is carved therein. They have gotten so caught up in the battle over the misuse of the Establishment Clause - the freedom from religion - that they have overlooked the ungodliness intrinsic in the Free Exercise Clause - the freedom of religion. Nothing better depicts this paradoxical tendency than 19th-century Pastor Benjamin F. Morris' claim:
"By an act of the [Virginia] Assembly in 1705, it was declared, that if any person brought up in the Christian religion denies the being of a God or the Trinity, or asserts that there are more Gods than one, or denies the Christian religion to be true, or the Scriptures to be of divine authority, he is punishable, on the first offence by incapacity to hold office or employment, ecclesiastical, civil, or military.... This law, opposed to the spirit of Christianity ... was abolished in 1786 by the following - "Act for Establishing Religious Freedom: ...all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."[30]
