“We are seeing Christianity on such a dramatic decline that we’re not particularly worried about it. We’re thinking that this kind of old-style George W. Bush Republicanism is about to go away,” Silverman said, referring to the latest Pew Forum survey of American religious life, which showed nonreligious Americans as the fastest-growing group

On June 7, 1797, John Adams signed into law the Treaty of Tripoli. This was the first Treaty for the USA and it was read and ratified unanimously by the founding Senate. The treaty states, in part, that “the government of the United States is not in any sense founded in the Christian Religion”.

Art. 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 tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan 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.

American Atheists is now an official member of the Secular Coalition for America!
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