John Jay's quote? Umm.. You're missing part of it.
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In a letter addressed to Pennsylvania House of Representatives member John Murray, dated October 12, 1816, Jay wrote, "Real Christians will abstain from violating the rights of others, and therefore will not provoke war. Almost all nations have peace or war at the will and pleasure of rulers whom they do not elect, and who are not always wise or virtuous. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
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Since we HAVE started wars, I think that would disqualify us from Jay's idea of being a true Christian nation.
Buggyone: You are *very* wrong. Thomas Jefferson himself was working on a translation of the Koran. Remember the flak that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) got for taking hsi oath on a Koran? It was *Jefferson's* Koran that he specifically asked to borrow from the Library of Congress. So the Founders DID have knowledge of Islam.
How about a quote of his from "Notes on the State of Virgina - 1782":
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"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.
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