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30. The connotations to the historical usage of "establishment"

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:45 PM

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Are very different from what most people understand today.

It was not written as “the establishment of a religion”.
It is written as “an establishment of religion”.
This means no creations of any religion can be legislated. Not buy bull reading, not sacraments, not prayers, not performance or lack thereof, not commandments, not clothing, not sexuality.
They will ultimately fail in their attempts to enforce any such legislation, but I wish the process for reversing the travesties they are trying to impose on us were as fast as the original imposition.

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