GEORGE WASHINGTON ON OUR "CHRISTIAN" NATION

Next time you hear the wingnuts screeching about the Founding Fathers and their intentions that this be a Christian nation, remind them of this:

Courtesy of Ed Thibodeau, at Nonplussed:

It’s the law of the land, as negotiated by George Washington in a treaty with the nation of Tripoli on November 4, 1796, and ratified by the United States Senate on June 10, 1797:

Article 11:

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 tranquility of Musselmen, — and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan 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.