Sallow
The Big Bad Wolf.
The original document WAS binding because they signed it. They renegotiated it later. You obviously didn't read any of the links provided.Thanks for posting this. I honestly had never seen or heard of it before. But in my research of it I can see you left out one inconvenient fact:
The treaty was renegotiated 8 years later and those famous words were left out.
Treaty of Tripoli. Article 11. Christian nation phrase
See, this article you wrote and posted is like someone saying that "according to US Law Blacks are only to be considered 3/5 of a person" but leaving out the Emancipation proclamation and the 13th Amendment.
THREAD FAIL!
I encourage everyone to do their own research and just ignore the OP's article.
This is not neccesarily a thread fail at all. You can argue that the original document, while not binding, shows the original intent of the majority of our founding fathers, or atleast where their mindset was at the birth of our nation. Simply because this was left out of the document when it was renegotiated doesn't mean that they intended for this nation to change within 8 years and BECOME a Christian nation. Otherwise I'm sure they would have added their own "this is a Christian nation clause". Either way, we are still clearly a secular nation if we follow the constitution alone.
And the "original intent" of our founders was to keep slavery, you think we should go back to that? Shit, even you doper Liberals use that argument!
Besides Freedom Of Religion is much different than Freedom From Religion. There is no Freedom From Religion as you religion haters argue.
The idea was that governments shouldn't create a religion and force you to worship it.
America isn't a Christian Nation. It isn't a Muslim Nation. It isn't a Mormon Nation. It isn't a Church of Scientology Nation either.
More importantly, it isn't an Anti-Religion Nation was well. Don't forget that.
No..it's freedom FROM religion as well. The Constitution makes no such distinction.
Religious nuts do.