Originally Posted by PJT04

DON'T FORGET ABOUT FREEMASONRY. MOST OF THEM WERE FREEMASONS.

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WANTED A SECULAR TYPE OF GOVERNMENT. THE CHRISTIAN ESTABLISHMENT HATES TO DISCUSS THIS FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS: http://earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html


The Founding Fathers, also, rarely practiced Christian orthodoxy. Although they supported the free exercise of any religion, they understood the dangers of religion. Most of them believed in deism and attended Freemasonry lodges. According to John J. Robinson, "Freemasonry had been a powerful force for religious freedom." Freemasons took seriously the principle that men should worship according to their own conscious. Masonry welcomed anyone from any religion or non-religion, as long as they believed in a Supreme Being. Washington, Franklin, Hancock, Hamilton, Lafayette, and many others accepted Freemasonry.