> If you can prosecute "the cards told me X is the murderer", you can also prosecute "God told me X is the murderer"; they are identical claims.
Can't you prosecute the latter though? Its not like freedom of religion is a get out of jail free card. Like you can't murder someone and then say $deity made me do it.
> Like you can't murder someone and then say $deity made me do it.
Well. I would imagine something like that actually happened in the days of the early colonies: Bob kills Alice, claims she was a witch and the God revealed it to him, the juries agree that Alice was actually a pretty shifty woman, and the Bob goes away with a fine for unlicensed witch hunting^W^W^W vigilantism.
Can't you prosecute the latter though? Its not like freedom of religion is a get out of jail free card. Like you can't murder someone and then say $deity made me do it.