Semantics, Semantics. Did Congress buy 20,000 Bibles? No, records do show that.
Did Congress AUTHORIZE for 20,000 Bibles to be imported? YES ("from Holland Scotland or elsewhere into different ports of the States of the Union" Journal of Congress, Thursday, September 11, 1777). Although the Bibles never made it Congress DID AUTHORIZE importing them and it was voted in the affirmative the same day. The talk about Aitkin is a smoke screen to attempt to refute Bills assertion that 20,000 Bibles were authorized, which they were.
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No, this "talk" is not a smoke screen to refute bill's assertion. It is to refute the claim that congress ordered and paid for bibles. It's plain as day they did not order nor pay for bibles but that doesn't matter to bill or you. Aiken ask congress to "authorize" or in other words allow him to print the bibles. There would have been no reason for them not to do that. They weren't banning bibles or religion. But they did not order nor pay for the bibles.
(authorize v. to officially empower someone to act.)
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You are constantly posting about "discussion and debate". This IS discussion and debate. Whenever you or bill get opposing views and proof that you're wrong you run to the claim that people are only trying to "disrupt" your conversation and pick on you because you're a christian. You really need to do a bit of research before you post. I could give you many reasons and examples of why this country is going in the direction it is, and it has nothing at all to do with atheists.