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Originally posted by SoCal911SC
Treaty signed by President John Adams: ""The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
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April 19, 1817, letter to Thomas Jefferson:
"Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion at all!!!" But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean hell." --
John Adams
In his famous speech to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on June 28, 1787:
"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth--that God governs in the affairs of men... If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground unseen by him, is it probable an empire could arise without his aid? I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building not better than the builders of Babel." --
Benjamin Franklin (avowed deist)