 John Adams, who sometimes is cited as being evidence that America is not a Christian country because he signed the Treaty of Tripoli, which to get Muslim pirates to stop imprisoning and enslaving American sailors in a diplomatic treaty, he said America is not a Christian country. And that was a treaty actually negotiated by a Jeffersonian diplomat, but that's also a story for another time. John Adams said explicitly, we don't need to wonder about what he thought from the