(January 18, 2013 at 10:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Hello, C/C
Unfortunately the First Amendment also establishes freedom of religion.
Big fucking mistake by those deist douchebags who wrote the damn thing.
It was not a mistake. The reason is because one cannot use force to dictate to another what they shall believe. Arguments may be used to persuade a person, but forcing someone to not believe in a god is unjustified. If the government can dictate to people what they can say, what they can read, and think, then what room would there ever be for freedom?
The real author of the First Amendment was Spinoza, and he was not a deist.
