Dumb as a Fucking Rock

[Angrboda]

Right, because the Bible demonstrates nothing so much as Yahweh's deep love of the principles behind the 1st Amendment. Do these idiots ever listen to themselves?

Not to nitpick, but the first amendment lagged behind the original constitution by about a decade, and was explicitly excluded to ease passage of the original constitution. I think, like Christians and the bible, many people have this idea of what's in the constitution which is wholly inaccurate. It's a relatively short document, so I urge all interested parties to actually read it. It's primarily a document with two apparent goals, a) to set up governmental procedure, and b) to put explicit bounds on state and federal powers. The "granting of rights" part came later; there are almost no individual rights actually specified in the constitution itself.