Is America a Christian nation? The Founders didn't think so.

This is an article I saw this morning on Reader Supported News - a great service, and they need your support as in a donation - “The Palin Principle: Bible Trumps Constituiton” by Rick Ungar, in TrueSlant.

Here’s an excerpt:

“As for author John Adams - a man with strong religious beliefs who allowed religion to play a part in his personal life but carefully avoided it in public matters - nowhere is there clearer proof of the man’s approach to this subject than in the little known “Treaty of Tripoli”, signed by President John Adams and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1796, less than 10 years after the Constitution’s adoption.

Chapter 11 of the treaty reads:

“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; (emphasis added) as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

Treaty of Tripoli

Could it possibly be any clearer?”

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