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In reply to the discussion: Be glad we don't have this. Yet. [View all]

keithbvadu2

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1. "that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 01:02 AM
Jan 2024
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist= ;

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.

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