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paperclippyProof that the founding fathers did not consider the US a Christian Nation. See Article 11, and note at the top that this document was presented by John Adams in 1797.
For those too lazy to click the link, this is Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, relevant text bolded: As the Government 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 tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext, arrising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
For those too lazy to click the link, this is Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, relevant text bolded: As the Government 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 tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext, arrising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
