Talk:Freedom of religion in the United States

Freedom of Religion in US means "Freedom to exercise your religious beliefs without interference from state not separation from state"!
The First Amendment of the United States of America was established by colonial founders who were believers in religious freedom. They wanted and wanted the people of this great nation to have freedom to worship in their own way without fear of government involvement. There is nothing in the first amendment that says church and state should be separated! It details that state or the government should not interfere in any way with the people's right to worship freely! Separation of church and state if a false interpretation of the first amendment! I believe Wikipedia should remove the reference to separation of church and state from its topic of "Freedom of religion in the United States"! Because Freedom of religion has nothing to do with separation of church and state. The separation concept was not advocated by any of the founders of the Constitution of the United States. It is a theory forced upon those who are ignorant of the truth. Our founding fathers meant for us to practice our religious beliefs wherever we are in our free country. Freedom means just that..... every individual has the freedom to make their own choice to believe or not believe and I respect each individuals choice. But don't tell anyone that religion should only be exercised in certain places or at certain times because Jesus goes with me everywhere and He walked with the founding fathers of this great country too!! That is why America is great! God made her that way!

Sandy Staton — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.83.144.199 (talk) 13:10, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Discover doctrine/Native American article expansion.
I noticed that the section on Native Americans doesn't mention the discovery doctrine, which is basically the idea that Christian Europeans have automatic right to land occupied by non-Christian Native Americans.

I also think it's pretty ridiculous that there's an entire separate article on persecution of atheists in the US but not one about religious persecution of Native Americans. I could help with this but is anyone else interested? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:200:C000:530:FD24:96D8:16EC:328A (talk) 02:08, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

A section on Muslim religion is needed
There is a lot of information needed to address the Muslim religion and it's operation in the US. Please add a section titled "Situation of Muslims" and prepare documentation of history, etc. similar to other minority groups.Merowland01 (talk) 19:02, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hinduism Entered America in 1893
The article says that the time when Hinduism entered the US is not clearly identifiable. This is clearly false. Swami Vivekananda came from India to attend the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. His address was very well received. Unless there is an earlier recorded expression of Hindu beliefs in America, his address should be the date when Hinduism "entered" America.Sooku (talk) 03:01, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this is useful as a supporting cite: Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 11:50, 3 September 2019 (UTC) Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 11:50, 3 September 2019 (UTC)