God's Warriors

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Isambard said:
*cough*

However it originated, it was undeniably a part of the treaty as approved by President John Adams and Secretary of State Timothy Pickering and ratified by the Senate by a unanimous vote.
Article 11, reads:
"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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli

For an in-depth discussion check out http://foru.ms/t5804444-constitution-of-america-bill-of-rights-god-the-framers.html
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A Treaty with Tripoli has nothing to do with the topic in question, besides the one line I'm sure you intended to be an answer all statement, which it isn't. Of course the U.S. wasn't "founded" upon Christianity, as there is no Church of the United States. That doesn't change the Christian character of the nation from its very beginning. We're aren't talking legal designations, we are talking about the culture of a nation. Nobody wanted a theocracy, and no rational human being wants a theocracy now. However, nearly everything about the American family, community, celebrations, and culture was based in the Western Christian tradition.
 
islamirama said:
US was founded on Christianity or built rather. Puritans came with their religion, and religion played a major role in US history. The great pure and white man genocide the native lowly indians, the pure white children of god forcing blacks into slavery. the pure white KKK came out and was widely supported by everyone for the most part. the salem witch trials, everything has christianity in it. It wasn't till the civil war that you started to see some separation of state and religion. Even then women were property of husbands as per bible and had no rights, they had to fight for their rights as early as 1930s.
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Here is the opposite side of the coin. Religion had very little to do with the federal government. The Civil War had nothing to do with separation of church and state either.
 

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