No, my case isn't that. I'm putting into context why Joel Barlow said America isn't founded on Christianity; America was a weak fledgling country in fear of more powerful Islamic states, the House was attempting to appease aggressors rather than making any sort of secular proclamation

The U.S. was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, roughly 20 % of the entire federal budget, to the Barbary Muslim pirates to try to stop them taking American sailors as slaves

Joel Barlow was appeasing the schoolyard bully with his lunch money, saying that