No fancy rants here, folks. Plain and simple:
"The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" from the Treaty of Tripoli signed by John Adams and often attributed to George Washington.
Period.
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- My name is Ethan Brandt. I am a Skeptical Humanist currently attending Washington University in St. Louis. I picked up my first pipe my freshman year of college and I have never looked back. Since then, I have done everything I can to learn about pipes, tobacco, and everything involved. Far from a master, I find myself learning something new everyday.
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And thus the common reply of the educated: ToTB, or "Treaty of Tripoli, bitch."
I truly do not understand the entire argument that our Founding Fathers wanted this to be a Christian Nation. Jefferson was as against it as Dawkins, Franklin said lighthouses were more useful that churches, and Paine, (thinker, not 'Father') is in the same boat.
Even if they had intended it, so what? They also didn't want women to vote, black people to count as a full person, etc. Most importantly, the only people who could vote were the well educated, land owning, white men. Though a lot of those who cite the Founding Fathers fit most of these descriptions, they rarely fit the first. Does that tell us anything?
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