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It was not written by George Washington or anybody else in the United States.

It was written in Algiers by Hassan Bashaw and Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul to Algiers. The original written in Arabic, had no such statement. It was added in Barlow's translation to make nice with the Moslems and that was the sole purpose for it. Moslems were forbidden to make treaties with Christians.

The entire article XI is as follows:

"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 tranquillity of Musselmen(Moslems),--and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mohammedan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever interrupt the harmony existing between the two countries."

It was a diplomatic ploy to appease the moslems that caused Adams (not Washington) push through ratification. As I pointed out the original was in Arabic and had no Article XI. Joel Barlow was a Deist by the way. It is a good example of a poorly worded treaty. Adams even thought Barlow's translation left much to be desired.

I just do not think it is fair to attribute a remark to one of the founding fathers as if he made it when he did not.

I will let someone else defend Moses. I am off to bed.

"IN GOD WE TRUST"
The explicit acknowledgement of our Creator and the Traditional Christian Values of our Founding Fathers is wholly irrefutable. No man can question that these Christian men established, and we are today living in, a union of states that is implicitly Christian and has as it's Supreme Sovereign, Almighty God who is the Father of us all.
Every man who owns anything in this country implicitly honors our God by honoring the currency on which His Holy Name is engraved, And not only His name, but our National statement of Trust in Him. This extends from the lowly beggar on the street who picks up a penny with the Holy Name on it, all the way up to the atheist Federal Judge who cashes a check and receives paper currency, each of these currencies are predicated upon our succinctly stated Trust in God Almighty and every man who uses them is rendering due worship to the same. I therefore pose a question which I have stated time and again in the presence of Atheists and Agnostics; 'If you do not acknowledge the existence of God, why do you avowedly honor His holy name by using our money engraved with our creed of Trust?' In reality every anti-Christ pagan should cease utilizing our currency, printed with the Holy name on it and begin using some more godless means of commodity, until such a time as that, they will continue to implicitly worship the King of Kings. Let everyone who agrees with the illegal and immoral inhibition of Chief Justice Roy Moore consider those facts.
In reality we need look no further than the recent remarks of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, supporting leniency on criminals as a means of combating crime, to realize that what we have in this instance, and in our world at large, is not a battle of atheists versus Christians, but of simple right versus wrong. Todays "Judicial Dictatorship" within the Federal Government knows of no deities except those between their own ears, and they would rather promote the ideals of 'universal tolerance' than let a State Supreme Court Chief Justice uphold so antiquated and inhereltly flawed ideals as; "Thou Shalt not Kill" and "Thou Shalt not Steal". It is these, not laws, but basic tenets of civility that our current Anti-Christ judicial establishment takes issue with. After all how could we in good conscience acknowledge that "Thou Shalt Not Kill" as a legally binding directive when we have killed our unborn babies to the point of making Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia look saintly by mathematical comparison.
Chief Justice Roy Moore is a true American Hero, and no court of "Judicial Despots" can ever change the historical particulars enough to disprove the validities of his contentions. Without the basic tenets of civility conveyed to us in the Mosaic Decalogue we are no different than the brutest beasts of the earth.
May The Almighty and Merciful Lord, who delivered His children from the bonds of slavery in Egypt, deliver us in like manner from the tyrrany of a despotic "Judiciary of Paganism", which shall surely not rest until we are equated at every instance with the animals. And may the words of God, The Ten Commandments, which are the target for censure by that same tyrranic cabal be so engrained in our hearts and minds that we may by God's Grace ever establish His true peace and justice through our actions and preserve His favor on our nation.
May God Bless the Rt. Hon. Roy Moore,
and may God Bless America.