Posted on 06/05/2005 6:11:53 PM PDT by RedwineisJesus
I'm sure that many of you have now read "Angels & Demons". It answered for me (a Canadian) a question I'd always had about the American dollar bill ... "what in hell is that pyramid with the big eyeball on it on the back of the bill ???"
It's a Masonic symbol.
But the questions STILL remain:
1/Why do Americans have a Masonic symbol on their currency? Do most Americans even have a clue what the Masons stand for?
2/ How do Americans reconcile themselves with the two contradictory messages on the back of the bill: Novus Ordo Seclorum (New Secular Order) and In God We Trust?
Anyone with answers out there?
"A new order of society" and "In God we trust" are not necessarily contradictory. This comes from the "city on a hill" philosophy that drove many of our earliest settlers. In another words, they came here to build a new civilization that would be a shining example of truth to the rest of the world. They attempted to create a society that did not have a hierarchical church (such as England or Rome) but did have people with a direct faith in the Lord. In another words, instead of the people trusting in a state church which in turn trusts in God, the people would trust directly in God. They also attempted to creat a society that was not aristocratic like Europe. Such a society would have been unheard of and therefore consitute a new social order.
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To assume makes an ass out of u and me.
I assume you don't have financial interest in that. To help you stir this pot: one has one-half or one side of the combatants in the American Civil War and the European theater in World War II.
Have fun!
So...do you have moose in your frig?
Note to all you conspiracy Kooks out there: Eventually your illogic comes out.
I always figured...DEN was a monument to Hillary Clinton.
All the gargoyles sealed it for me.
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Simple: The pyramid scheme that is social security; the eye of Big Brother government. [snicker].
" Note to all you conspiracy Kooks out there: Eventually your illogic comes out."
Atta boy! That should make them scamper off properly with their illogical tails between their legs!!
Jesus answered it already.
19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
I didn't say that the founding fathers were all "godless athiests". I said that masons were sworn enemies of the Church who put certain ideals before God Himself.
And I thought this country was supposedly founded as a Christian nation.
That's what you thought... supposedly. The "creator" is ambiguously mentioned exactly once in the Declaration of Independance and not at all in our constitution.
They thought it better to leave Him out after winning the war, which is why today He's being snuffed out of American life at every opportunity. If we were founded as a "Christian" nation as some believe, the Father, Son and Holy spirit would have been mentioned at least once in our founding documents. They're not.
Even regarding the Declaration they got the "life" part right, but show me how God teaches us that we are somehow entitled to "liberty" or the "pursuit of happiness". From a Christian perspective, it's theologically unsound. All this pursuing of personalized idiosyncratic "happiness" and abuse of free will is exactly what's causing our devolution.
Freedom is in truth. Happiness comes from loving, serving and knowing God.
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Don't worry. They're trying to remove that so everything should finally be squared.
Isn't it amazing how somebody reads a book and becomes an instant expert, while the rest of us are in the dark and in need of their enlightenment.
I guess it's good we have "Angels and Demons" to tell us what's what.
I wish I could dig it back out of the trash can I threw it in.
Good one, Harley!!!
Hardly. Neither the Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence even mention Our Lord Jesus Christ, let alone acknowledge His Divine Kingship.
Exactly.
Grammar quibble - founders' documents.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Opinion - as soon as someone gets rid of that pesky 'endowed by their Creator' phrase, I think the USA will be on the road to becoming a fond memory.
Propaganda to pacify some Christians from thinking too much about the reality of the documents and the legal system that evolves from them.
This guy says not a Christian nation but a nation founded by Christians:
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom of worship here."
Patrick Henry
So tell me Argus...have you actually read the book?
Or any other book for that matter?
I'm not saying I'm an expert in anything...I was just truly surprised when I read the book...I was under the assumption that the Masons was just a good ole' boys club with funny handshakes that the likes of Archie Bunker would belong to for the camraderie.
That so many members of the Masons hhave risen to positions of prominence makes me want to look at this organization more closely.
But you just stay blissful.
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