Friday, November 05, 2010

Nation founded on god?

U.S. Treaty with Tripoli. Drafted by George Washington in 1796 & signed by John Adams in 1797. Two agnostic thinkers of the time.

"As the Goverment of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mohemitan 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."