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**DF9sLGSU** · 10-26-2007, 07:00 AM

Surely you don't actually believe anything published on Wiki, do you? Anyone can publish anything...so nothing can be taken as even approaching fact. There are plenty of sources that you can search for, though, that will show just how closely our original rules, constitution and Bill of Rights was based on biblical principles. Even many founding fathers thought of as diests were undoubtedly Christian, but didn't believe in the way the English Catholic church ran things.

Art. 11. 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 arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html

Treaty of tripoli, article 11, 1797. Signed by James Adams.

10-26-2007, 07:00 AM	#22
DF9sLGSU Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	Surely you don't actually believe anything published on Wiki, do you? Anyone can publish anything...so nothing can be taken as even approaching fact. There are plenty of sources that you can search for, though, that will show just how closely our original rules, constitution and Bill of Rights was based on biblical principles. Even many founding fathers thought of as diests were undoubtedly Christian, but didn't believe in the way the English Catholic church ran things. Art. 11. 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 arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html Treaty of tripoli, article 11, 1797. Signed by James Adams.
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