Comments on: Two Theocratic Dons http://lubbockleft.com/2009/08/24/two-theocratic-dons/ A strong progressive voice in Lubbock, TX Mon, 21 May 2012 19:45:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: el ranchero http://lubbockleft.com/2009/08/24/two-theocratic-dons/#comment-10076 el ranchero Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:50:56 +0000 http://lubbockleft.com/2009/08/24/two-theocratic-dons/#comment-10076 From the Treaty of Tripoli, signed into law by President John Adams, June 10, 1797: "<b>As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion</b>; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, 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." It's a treaty ratified by a United States Senate likely composed of a great many "founding fathers," considering the constitution had been ratified less than a decade beforehand. No doubt a great many of those senators were also devout Christians, and yet we have no evidence of any great scandal caused by this wording. I'm just sayin.' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli" rel="nofollow">The Treaty of Tripoli</a> And to bring this all full circle, who was it that implored Thomas Jefferson to keep church out of the government, prompting the response letter in which Jefferson articulated "the wall of separation between church and state?" The Danbury Baptist Association. From the Treaty of Tripoli, signed into law by President John Adams, June 10, 1797:
“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 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.”

It’s a treaty ratified by a United States Senate likely composed of a great many “founding fathers,” considering the constitution had been ratified less than a decade beforehand. No doubt a great many of those senators were also devout Christians, and yet we have no evidence of any great scandal caused by this wording. I’m just sayin.’

The Treaty of Tripoli

And to bring this all full circle, who was it that implored Thomas Jefferson to keep church out of the government, prompting the response letter in which Jefferson articulated “the wall of separation between church and state?” The Danbury Baptist Association.

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