Sure, the First Amendment prohibits the government from making a law "respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," but current case law on religious freedom is deeply mixed. Why? Well, ask Netflix's Wild Wild Country, a new documentary about a cult community in Oregon that is "a staggeringly improbable mélange of religion, New Age psychology, land-use and constitutional law, group sex, credit-card scams, xenophobia and immigration terrors, fundamentalism, election fraud, germ warfare, terror bombing, assassination squads, and Putin-style poisoning, all enacted against the haunting background of the Oregon high desert."
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