Lisa, instead of trying to impress everyone with your sophomoric grasp of the English language, why did you not directly address Washington's statement? From your reply, you are implying that one should believe what Washington said when it suits their argument, and negate his words when it does not suit one's argument. Such are the words from a true American Pharisee.

When trying to arrange for workmen in 1784 at Mount Vernon, Washington made clear that he would accept "Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists." Washington wrote Lafayette in 1787, "Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception."