An ex-student sent me the following YouTube of Obama's recent speech in Cairo where he states (roughly) that we are no longer "just" a Christian nation, but are also a Jewish nation and a Muslim nation and a Buddhist nation and a nation of non-believers.
He wondered if this was blasphemous and whether it might weaken the country.
What would you tell him?
And what about this segment from the Treaty of Tripoli (1796):
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 tranquility, 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.
I'm confused.
