We are a nation which won its freedom by the strength of a great many Masons.
20 GREATEST NAMES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
John Adams - Spoke favorably of Freemasonry -- never joined
Samuel Adams - (Close and principle associate of Hancock, Revere & other Masons
Ethan Allen - Mason
Edmund Burke - Mason
John Claypoole - Mason
William Daws - Mason
Benjamin Franklin - Mason
Nathan Hale - No evidence of Masonic connections
John Hancock - Mason
Benjamin Harrison - No evidence of Masonic connections
Patrick Henry - No evidence of Masonic connections
Thomas Jefferson - Deist with some evidence of Masonic connections
John Paul Jones - Mason
Francis Scott Key - No evidence of Masonic connections
Robert Livingston - Mason
James Madison - Some evidence of Masonic membership
Thomas Paine - Humanist
Paul Revere - Mason
Colonel Benjamin Tupper - Mason
George Washington - Mason
Daniel Webster - Some evidence of Masonic connections
Hate 'em if you want, but they sacraficed a great deal for all of us.
Thank you for your excellent post, bannie!
Bump!
Who is saying they hate anyone? So what if some of those men were Masons? Some of our founding fathers were Deists and several were agnostics. They were made up of a mix of men from various religious or non-religious beliefs.
Thomas Jefferson said to his nephew:
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
In essence, whether they were Masons, agnostics, Deists, whatever, they were men with foibles and shortcomings as we all have.
John Adams - Spoke favorably of Freemasonry -- never joined
Huh?? Which John Adams are they talking about here because John Quincy Adams spoke out against the Masonson his father's behalf:
His son, John Quincy Adams, wrote, August 22, 1831 of him: “There was nothing in the Masonic Institution worthy of his seeking to be associated with it. So said at that time the Grand Master of Masons, Jeremy Gridley; and such have repeatedly heard my father say was the reason why he never joined the lodge. The use of the name of Washington, to give an odor of sanctity to the institution as it now stands exposed to the world, is in my opinion as unwarrantable as that of my father’s name.”