At 08:47 PM 4/22/97 -0500, you wrote:
>RJV 4/22
>I tried to listen to the debate, but my connection was horrible. Hope
>some of you had better luck...
>
>-- 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]
>
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