Since the days of the enlightenment, secularists have attempted to argue that religion is incompatible with progress. Today’s American Left argues that bigoted religious Americans are discriminating against other Americans, and that the power of government must be utilized to end that discrimination. Furthermore, the Left argues that religious believers oppose science in all of its forms, and thus stand for the forces of ignorance. In order to reach this conclusion — which runs counter to history, to reality, and to the Constitution — the Left has to construct a mythical Right, resurrect in modern form the specter of the Spanish Inquisition, and castigate religious Americans as Dark Ages nut jobs who want to harm gay Americans and stop cancer research. The truth is precisely the opposite. True intolerance is now the nearly-exclusive preserve of the political Left when it comes to religious Americans, and it is the Left that wishes to ignore science and castigate those who use it in order to protect their cherished political causes.
Myth 1: The Founders wanted to limit religious adherence to church.
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