Posted on 02/19/2007 7:09:11 AM PST by Ed Hudgins
[Posted 2/19/07, from 2004 Washington Times piece.]
February 22, 2004 -- George Washington unfortunately has become a cliché. For an older generation, he was too often treated as such a mythic figure that it was difficult to appreciate his true importance. In today’s politically correct society many treat him as a white, male oppressor. Most of us celebrate his birthday by shopping the sales at the mall. This is not a bad use of our time, but it is appropriate to take a moment to reflect on the real greatness of the real Washington and the moral lessons he taught us.
Washington exemplified the spirit of early America. He was in his heart and for most of his life a farmer and an innovator who developed new crops and agricultural techniques. He valued the production of wealth as a worthy goal in life. But he also understood that the freedom to produce often must be fought for.
Washington was the general who won America’s independence from Britain, then one of the world’s strongest powers. It was an incredible feat. In 1777, when he marched his 12,000 ragtag volunteers to winter camp at Valley Forge, their prospects were as bleak as the bitter weather. Some 2,000 men died from the brutal cold and from sickness. But the volunteers persevered in large part because of Washington, who forged them into a formidable army. He was no great orator but he had the inspiring words of Thomas Paine read to his frozen troops: “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman...
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He had Algore teeth
Wasn't he a mason? just curious
But would have preferred a little global warming during that Valley Forge winter!
yes he was, as were many of the important men of that time. In many pictures of GW you will see him standing in a pose only Masons will recognize. Look for a square and compass and you will find them all over our founding fathers.
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman...
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It was quite a feat -- too bad this type of leadership just simply does not exist in DC any more. All that was great, has been replaced by pursuit of personal empowerment and wealth.
Yes, he was a Freemason. In fact, he laid the corner stone to the U.S. Capitol building in a Masonic ceremony. The Masons in the Northern Virginia lodge hold a ceremony at his crypt at Mount Vernon every year. They're the only ones allowed to do that. My dad's a Mason so I was able to attend a ceremony there once.
He was absolutely a Mason.....and several articles mention Washington ceremonies as being conducted in "true Masonic fashion". IIRC, it is even referred to in regard to his inauguration in NYC. I have an old book on this and the political battles of the Masons....particularly here in NY.
Yes, Brother George Washington was a Master Mason.
No. He wasn't a deist. The fact that Masons will not accept an atheist doesn't make them deists.
So how does that fit into biblical beliefs?
Isn't that contrary to the teachings of Christ?
The "upside down star is the Eastern Star symbol. The Order of the Eastern Star is based on the Old and New Testament.
Two subjects not allowed for discussion in a Masonic Lodge are politics and religion. Freemasonry is not, repeat, is not a religion. Freemasons are expected and encouraged to be active in the practice of their own religions without interference by Freemasonry.
People get their undies in a twist because Freemasonry isn't evangelical Christian, or Roman Catholic, or whatever. From that point of view, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Little League, NRA, Greenpeace, Sierra Club and many others should be banned because they are not of the "proper" religious persuasion.
Freemasonry makes good men better. Religions save men...they can, with the grace of God, take bad men and make them good. Freemasonry doesn't interfere with the purpose and duty of religion. It is no threat to any religion.
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