re: Do you believe that the United States was founded as a Christian Nation?

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The Treaty was also edited in 1805 and the part about us not being a Christian nation was removed, but people seem to forget that.

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So there were revisionist historians in 1805?

The reason this language was included in the treaty is because the Muslims were under the mistaken impression that the United States was a Christian nation and thus could not be trusted by Muslims. There were, even then, people who would have us to believe that the United States was a Christian nation....and the founding fathers were adamant that it was not....even to the point of stating, in no uncertain terms, that the idea was patently false. No doubt the incessant pressure from those who would have had this nation as backward as any Muslim nation created an atmostphere where this language was later deleted....but the fact that it was ever stated unequivocally proves that we did not want the world to see this nation as a Christian nation....