-- R Jason Valentine ..ooOO miracle@procyon.com
"Of course, the United States was not originally intended to be a Christian
nation. Jefferson, Washington, Franklin and most of the founding fathers
were skeptics or Deists; they specifically intended a secular government
with an unbreachable wall between church and state; they even wrote into
the treaty with the Moslem nation of Tripoli a clear statement that, unlike
European countries, the United States is not, in any sense, a Christian
nation. (So clearly understood was the principle of separation of church
and state in those days that the treaty passed Congress without any debate
on that clause, and President John Adams signed it at once, without any
fear that it might jeopardize his political future.)"
[Robert Anton Wilson, "Sex and Drugs", 1973]