America is a Christian Nation Atheism is not patriotic Adrian Rogers response to atheist.org

The Treaty of Tripoli is not one of our most important documents, it was a treaty with a foreign nation, a Muslim nation to be more specific, and we need to consider under what circumstances was written. Back in those days there were Muslim pirates in the mediterranean taking over US ships and kidnapping the crew. Before the independence, US colonies were protected by the British navy, but after that they were on their own and they had no naval force whatsoever, so they pretty much had to force a treaty if they wanted to survive.