this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2023
5 points (77.8% liked)

World News

32163 readers
832 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits government from encouraging or promoting ("establishing") religion in any way. That's why we don't have an official religion of the United States. This means that the government may not give financial support to any religion.

[–] Tretiak@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And as I linked to, that’s a modern political conception we have that historically wasn’t there and was wholly unfounded.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Well it is now bub