HUH?? How is it engaging in vile impugnations of Masons to say that some of our forefathers were Deists! Did I say all Masons were Deists? You need to read my posts more carefully.
It is revisionist history to say some of them weren't Deists and I don't care how many people on FR say otherwise.
The reason why the Roman Catholic Church "bulled" against the Masons are simply that they could not, like so much else, control the Masons.
In the 1500's, there were orgies in the Vatican, 18 year old Cardinals, purchased indulgences, etc, and yet we are judged to be bad guys. In his well documented book A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE:
William Manchester, a noted historian brought the true light to what is supposed to be the infalibility of "man"
Am glad that we have a network of Masons to rebut, but it is terrible to witness these attacks when we are undergoing the war of wars with the Islam terrorists.