"With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people - a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion..." - John Jay,
The Federalist Papers, No. 2
He wasn't talking about Buddhism or Islam. And the "Providence" in question certainly had nothing in common with the meaninglessness, materialism, moral relativism, and hedonism of liberal secular humanism as promoted today by the wacky Dems.
