"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".

The difference between an individual as a "worshipper" or practitiioner facing his beliefs about the Infinite, the nature of being or the source of Existence and the same individual as a citizen is paramount here; Wolfgang makes the excellent point that the individual "identifies" with the practice, or the label, or the beliefs such that when they are institutionally criticized or mocke,d he feels individually attacked.

Possibly it is inherently a flaw in religiosity that this identification seems to happen more extremely with some religions, anyway, than it does with other groups such as the Boy Scouts or the Rotary or Lion's club party. It seems to me that identifying yourself with something designed by other humans is a pretty sure guarantee of confusion.

This mechanism, I feel, may be the core of what informed the AMerican architects to inject the separation of Church and State into the Constitution.

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