I find it very interesting that the left would use this quote in this way, I believe what the quote then was indicating was that we had no one religion sanctioned by the government such as Great Britain at the time, but we were a very diverse country of several different beliefs all based on Christian values. I do not believe that at that time there were any Muslims in the colonies. Now we are using the quote to say we have a country of other than the Christian based faith and therefore not the enemy of Islam in an attempt to appease the Islamic world.