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Thread #129946 Message #2921121
Posted By: katlaughing
05-Jun-10 - 02:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Thomas Jefferson
Subject: RE: BS: Thomas Jefferson
Not only that but he carefully called it "Nature's God" if the above quote is correct.
It is worth taking a look at a side-by-side comparison of the Iroquois Federation's "Great Law of Peace" and the U.S. Constitution to see the Founding Fathers, some of them anyway, knew of the earliest known "constitution" in North America and wrote similar parts. I have a book which does this which I bought at a powwow years ago. If you google it, you will find many references including THIS BOOK published in 2004.
For this reason, an insight from at a little known but legal document written in the late 1700s explicitly reveals the secular nature of the United States to a foreign nation. Officially called the "Treaty of peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary," most refer to it as simply the Treaty of Tripoli. In Article 11, it states:
"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; 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."
BTW, Dan, there were also several Rosicrucians involved in the founding of our country including Benjamin Franklin and LaFayette, who of course didn't "found" but did so much to help it be born so to speak. I've actually seen his real signature on a charter for the Masonic Lodge in Northampton, Massachusetts.