I was wondering how long it would take for some religious fanatic to say it. “I don’t know how much God has to do…. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’” I thought it would be some Islamic fundamentalist saying it was God’s punishment for us killing Ben Laden. It wasn’t it was a fundamentalist of another persuasion … Michele Bachmann.

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The Treaty of Tripoli (Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary) was the first treaty concluded between the United States of America and Tripoli, signed at Tripoli on November 4, 1796 and at Algiers (for a third-party witness) on January 3, 1797. It was submitted to the Senate by President John Adams, receiving ratification unanimously from the U.S. Senate on June 7, 1797 and signed by Adams, taking effect as the law of the land on June 10, 1797: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominionism 

The treaty was a routine diplomatic agreement but has gained attention because the English version included a clause about religion in America:[3]
“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.”
the Treaty of Tripoli (1797)  Article 11:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli 

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… the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; …[37]