The thesis of your whole Congress ordered Bibles argument is that they did it because they were establishing a Christian Nation. They authorized the ordering of Bibles in order to prevent price gouging in a time of shortage. They also looked at printing them, but shortages in paper, and the lack of necessary equipment prohibited that. Had the nation at the time been populated predominately by Muslims, they would have looked into purchasing the Koran.
Notice from the documents that they always intended to recoup the cost of the bibles through sales. Not like they were just giving them away, or that they were so necessary that people should be supplied with them at government expense. They quickly found that buying bibles would be prohibitively costly, and ultimately impossible, and dropped the project. If congress was so gung-ho on getting bibles into the hands of its people, why did it give up so easily?
Bill keeps showing verbiage from various documents to prove Christian Nation intent. The only document that uses the word "Christian" is the Mayflower Compact, which makes sense considering that they were seeking asylum from persecution for their beliefs. The rest of the documents he quotes uses some variation of "Creator", which is a term that speaks more of Masonry than Christianity. Based on Bill's logical bent, he should be shouting that "America is a Masonic Nation!!!!!" Instead, what he posts proves the point that the Founding Fathers intended us the freedom to practice our religion, regardless of whether it be Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism or whatever, without the control or interference of government, and that the government was not to establish a preference of one over another.
As historians, neither GBRK nor Bill show any promise. They continue to twist facts to try and prove a thesis. And in the end, reach false conclusions. In fact Bill goes so far - and he does this in his "biblical studies" - as to take different, non-related, items out of context, mash them together, and arrive at a whole new "truth".
YOU and JENNIFER BOTH should know about twisting words and twisting facts but in this case there IS evidence. Do you just take what Jennifer says as total fact or do you also have difficulty in reading comprehension. WHERE did I ever say Congress bought or paid for or ordered BIBLES? . . . . . WHERE?
I SAID CONGRESS ( on September 17, 1777) AUTHORIZED the IMPORTING.
A U T H O R I Z E D .... Meaning if everything went as it should then the Bibles would have been Purchased, procured and Imported as authorized. They were not printed here because of the cost and availability of paper during this war so they were going to authorize the importation. Something that would not even have been done IF Congress wanted to separate Government from everything Religion. Quit trying to prevail in an argument by deception and twisting my words.