Not mentioned in the New Yorker review is another statement by the ultimate "founding father" -- George Washington, who wrote to the Rabbi of Touro Synagogue (the oldest in the USA, dating from the 1600s),assuring the Rabbi that this country is "not a Christian nation" and that "all religions have equal standing." And by the way, Washington refused to call for a clergyman as he lay dying a long painful death, even though he was a vestryman in that church.
Not mentioned in the New Yorker review is another statement by the ultimate "founding father" -- George Washington, who wrote to the Rabbi of Touro Synagogue (the oldest in the USA, dating from the 1600s),assuring the Rabbi that this country is "not a Christian nation" and that "all religions have equal standing." And by the way, Washington refused to call for a clergyman as he lay dying a long painful death, even though he was a vestryman in that church.
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