On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> So does anyone know the history of the anti-establishment clause?
> Was this an elitist imposition on a religious mass or a widely held
> opinion?
Actually, neither. Every Christian sect, knowing in its bones what Christianity was all about, needed protection from all the others, each of whom would gladly establish itself as the state's religion if it had the chance.
Shane Mage
> Porphyry in his Abstinance from Animal Flesh suggests that there are
> appropriate offerings to all the Gods, and to the highest the only
> offering acceptable is silence.