re: #170 spudly

This is where religion as a special case comes in (the 1st Amendment). Congress is explicitly disallowed passing laws WRT religious practice.

So if myself and a few other friends who were atheists said “kill all believers!” we’d be inciting, but I bet if a believer said “kill all atheists” he’d be held to a different (protected) standard.

It’s been argued here that the Koran inciting (or the Old Testament, for that matter) violence doesn’t matter because it is not acted upon in the vast majority of cases. My problem with that is what % of the church needs to become actually violent for people to recognize the violent nature of the base doctrine.

This is not so. Congress is forbidden to establish a state religion or to use religion as a standard for appointments or equal application of the law.

There are plenty of laws that have been made WRT religion that limit the ability of religious people from doing everything they might want to do. Consider the rulings about religious material in public schools.