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I get a little tired of people accusing freemasons of being involved in conspiracies to destroy America.
Consider this :
The majority of the leaders of the American Revolution were members of the Masonic Fraternity. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and all but two of the generals in the Revolutionary War were Masons. There were many more who helped form and served this country.
Masonic principles are embedded in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the U.S.
We have had at least 17 presidents that were freemasons.
Why would an organization be trying to destroy a country that it's members helped create (a country who's founding principles parallel it's own)?
IMHO those who accuse freemasonry of working to destroy our liberties are either ignorant of it's principles, have been taken in by conspiracy mongers hawking books, or are themselves working to destroy liberty.
Look elsewhere for enemies. They are not hard to find. Every day more are created by our "news media" and school systems. We must defeat them with logic, education and truth. Stop fighting windmills and do something constructive.
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In case you haven't guessed, I am a F.& A. Mason, also 32deg. I have read several books written by people claiming to be former Masons "exposing" all sorts of terrible things about the fraternity. Every one was filled with so many glaring errors that it was obviously written by a hack.
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