Air Force Academy creates worship area for Pagans, Druids, and Wiccans

The views of a founding father will do quite nicely.

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"The bill for establishing religious freedom," says the author, "I had drawn in all the latitude of reason and right. It still met with opposition; but with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that it's protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read "a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion." The insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of it's protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination." (Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:67)

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Thomas Jefferson viewed the First Ammendment as protecting every religion, and the lack thereof.

The little guy. You know, me and you. As in the opposite of big corporations, lobbyists, and billionaires.

Then why don't we appoint robots or computers? The very basis of law, justice, and truth is empathy, being able to put yourself in another person's shoes. Egads. You do want computers to run this country. How sad.

Since when? The Pilgrims fled a country based on Christian principle and law because of religious persecution. Christianity has had a long history of persecuting other religions, as well as establishing theocracies that outlaw differing religious beliefs. Have you not heard of the Inquisition? Did you know that people were even burned at the stake by the Catholic church for simply owning a Bible (only the clerics wer allowed to read from the Bible)? You really need to read up on your history. One of the earliest christian governments was the Holy Roman Empire and they converted people at sword point. It was either convert or die.The religious freedoms we enjoy today are based on secularism which is not a christian principle or law. Even atheists such as Locke and Voltaire factored in heavily in the writing of the Constitution.

Yes, christians persecuting christians in a country ruled by christian principles and law. Go figure. I said that the constitution was based on secularism, as is our government. It is a government based on common ground exclusive of religious beliefs, the very basis of secularism. If you read the writings of the Founding Fathers they based the government on Reason, not on scripture. Many of the Founding Fathers were deists and did not believe in the divinity of Jesus, including Thomas Jefferson. How can you be a christian and not believe that Jesus is the son of God?

The founders did a lot of things incorrectly. Your point? They weren't demigods for Pete's sake. The powers given to Congress by the Constitution do not include stripping people of their constitutional rights. It sounds to me as if you don't want a constitutional republic. You want anarchy where might makes right.

The problem is that their argument for putting these standards into law is because "the bible says so". In our government you need a better argument than this.Also, if we were to codify the Ten Commandments into law we would lose religious freedom in this country. How does that make sense? The very first commandment is "thous shalt have no other gods before me". So much for "worship as you please".

Others have mentioned the more obvious ones. But according to you Congress should have the right to strip people of their right to freely exercise their religious beliefs if a majority of Congress votes in support of such an idea.Also, free exercise is a right of the individual. The government, as an entity, does not have this right. The government does not have the right to allow one faith to be allowed while excluding others, the whole point of the OP.

A search of the document finds no mention of God.George Washington's Farewell AddressPerhaps you were thinking of something different?

How is the first amendment being used as a club against religion?