[narses]

You make much of the anti-Mason argument in your reply. A secret society that has killed to protect those secrets, alleged to use the most vile and blasphemous oaths but unwilling to discuss those oaths rather attack those who ask, well it does not sound at all Christian to me. More, some parts can require a Christian faith (even though many Christian communities decry them) while others allow many other faiths but all proclaim some kind of "universal brotherhood" while excluding women. Odd doesn't do it justice, and your claim that our Republic was founded on this murderous cabal certainly doesn't (ahem) square with established history. Secret meetings are an anethma to a free society, no?

[Pharmboy]

Whatever the negatives might be, there can be no doubt that this great Republic would not have been founded had it not been for Freemasonry. That, sir, is a fact. The Masons channeled the Enlightenment to North America; like it or not, 'tis true.