On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Guy Hammond wrote:
Kevin Callahan wrote:
"This is not now, nor ever has been, a Christian nation. Article 11
of the Treaty Of Tripoli, ratified by the United States Senate on
June 7, 1797, and signed into law by President John Adams, reads as
follows:
The Founding Fathers certainly didn't want to compel anyone to be
Christian (or rather, a specific kind of Christian), but it is
rather a coincidence that the laws they passed bore such a strong
resemblance to the prevailing Protestant morality of the time :-)
Christianity the moral code and Christianity the faith are very
tightly intertwined, but you can have the former without the latter.
Law can't exist in a moral vacuum, and the Constitution didn't
spring fully-formed like Minerva from the furrowed brow of Thomas
Jefferson (the text of the Declaration of Independence supports the
view that Christianity strongly influenced the US from the earliest
days).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/10/religion.law
K
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