[exnavy]

Here's a real quote from G. Washington, "We can have little hopes of the blessing of Heavon on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly." Speaking of the cursing, gambling continental army.

(Taken from "American Laedership Tradition", by Marvin Olasky )

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[aardvark1]

It is a truly enlightening experience to compare the Christian foundations of the American Revolution to the atheistic Enlightenment foundations of the French Revolution. The first was a "revolution" to apply the rule of law while the latter was a revolution in its truest sense of the word--anarchist and an overthrow of all authority, both human and divine. One led to a country blessed with freedoms which had not been experienced (or at least very rarely) in history previously. The other led to a blood bath with lines at the guillotine.

[MosesKnows]

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

While the statement itself is true, it cannot be attributed to President George Washington. The quote usually refers to the 1797 Treaty with Tripoli, which was not Washington’s work.

The 1797 treaty with Tripoli was a treaty in which each country officially recognized the religion of the other in an attempt to prevent further escalation of a "Holy War" between Christians and Muslims.

Article XI of that treaty stated:

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 [hatred] against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] and as the said States [America] have 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.

Article XI separated America from those historical strains of European Christianity, which demonstrated an inherent hatred of Muslims; it was intended to assure the Muslims that the United States was not a Christian nation like those of previous centuries and would not undertake a religious holy war against them.

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