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The US - Not a Christian Nation?

In this opinion piece from CNN, Kenneth C. Davis, author of "Don't Know Much about History" (a GREAT book and read if you ever get the chance), takes a look at not only the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but at the other writings of the Founding Fathers to determine what their intent was when they were creating the separation of church and state.

Discussing the Fathers' "original intent," he highlights the following:

-- In 1790, President George Washington wrote to America's first synagogue, in Rhode Island, that "all possess alike liberty of conscience" and that "toleration" was an "inherent national gift," not the government's to dole out or take away

-- In 1797, with President John Adams in office, the Senate unanimously approved one of America's earliest foreign treaties, which emphatically stated (Article 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 tranquility of Musselmen (Muslims) ..."

-- In 1802, Jefferson added his famous "wall of separation," implicit in the Constitution until he so described it (and cited in several Supreme Court decisions since).

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