In article <qxTb9.29570$Ic7.2150800 at news2.west.cox.net>,
John Knight <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote:
>>So John Adams told the Muslims in Tripoli, who were known to behead
>Christians at the time, that the US wasn't a Christian nation? So what?
>Are the Tripolites going to attack us because Adams exercised a little
>diplomacy-on-the-fly--and saved his head? No.
Actually, Washington was President when the treaty was signed, Adams
was President when it was ratified by Congress. Neither was at risk
of beheading at any point in the process. But you go right on
fantasizing whatever you need to to preserve your fictional history.
It puts the whole "Jews are not Israelites" thing into perspective for
everyone.
>Did he agree to burn all the Bibles? No.
What's that got to do with anything?
>He was a Christian, just like all our other Founding Forefathers:
Whether or not he was a Christian has no bearing on whether the United States
is a Christian nation.
>In a letter dated November 4, 1816, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson:
>>"The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion..."
Notably, this excludes most of the Bible and New Testament.
