“The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those … who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”

Waffler, your supportive patronage of the totalitarian statist theocracy infesting this land is a demonstrative exposé in a hatred of individual sovereignty, inalienable rights, liberty and the "laws of nature and of nature's God" (Declaration of Independence). The de jure States united was based on secular applications of natural law. The carnal government may be your religion, not mine.

Religion is: a sacrosanct object of conscience (an ethic(s), a moral(s), a value (system) or an orientation of correctness / enlightenment) believed sufficiently conventional as to enable an attributable action(s). Religion’s initiating elements of conscience, through fruition of action, encompasses self-obligated pursuits, imperative practices and devoted interests (by way of extreme brevity / example: safety, health, fairness, life style acceptance, monetary equality vs. equality before the law, and well being). A ‘god’, ‘causation’, or other ‘relegated source’ of such enabling elements may or may not be instrumental (or even useful) in defining religion. (by way of example: Buddhism, Taoism, societal ethics and Humanism are religions without a god or other extra human manifestation). When a god is implemented into a religion it is to justify and make sense of the conventionally held ethics, morals and beliefs.

Religion is: “ real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to ⋯ our fellow men.” (Bouvier’s Law Dictionary) This definition’s focus is on “real piety in practice” - and - “the performance of all known duties” - again, a sacrosanct object of conscience believed sufficiently conventional as to enable attributable actions (socialism or democratic socialism are destructive economic systems in and of them selves – not religion; BUT! ! !, when socialism is forcibly implemented by reason of ethics, morals, orientation of correctness, real piety in practice or, felt/believed sufficiently conventional as to enable performance of all known duties to a fellow man, socialism becomes a religion).

Webster's New World Dictionary - Fourth College Edition uses a slightly different vantage on Bouvier’s “fellow men” by stating, Religion is: “a.) any specific system of belief and worship, often involving a code of ethics and a philosophy [the Christian religion, the Buddhist religion, etc.] b.) any system of beliefs, practices, ethical values, etc. resembling, suggestive of, or likened to such a system [humanism as a religion] ⋯ any object of conscientious regard and pursuit.”

“we did indeed refer to ‘secular humanism’ as a ‘religion.” (Justice Antonin Scalia, In Torcaso v. Watkins, (1961)). “To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures ⋯ and the courts ⋯ to act as ⋯ censors of religious speech. ⋯ Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy ⋯" (Justice Anthony Kennedy, Town of Greece, NY, v. Galloway et al, 20140)

Religions are recognizable by their moral and ethical tenets, by terse example: clothe the naked, feed the hungry, house the homeless, finance the indigent, aide the sick and otherwise afflicted, regulate religious sacraments such as marriage, and aide and abet human sacrifice to the gods of pleasure and life style. Religions are also recognizable by their dogma canons outside the laws of nature and of nature’s God (Declaration of Independence - absolute law such as gravity, physics and that which concerns life, liberty and property).