Sig Line Be Damned.....
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Originally Posted by x SF med
Ok, interesting reaction. I can wait for a response.
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Yes, I had some family business to take care of before I reposted. At least I posted something instead of just turning off the computer and walking away.
Anyway....
My stand is....The United States IS NOT a Christan nation. If it were, the first amendment would not have been written, the way we see it today. Freedom of religion is one of the biggest corner stones, we hold dear in this country. No where in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution does it say that we are, or that any one living here, shall follow the Christan doctrine. Something of that nature, follows the way of oppression the Catholic Church implemented in the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.
As for the Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, as I stated above, I did not know that it was possibly put in after it was signed in the Barbary states, or that is was possibly mistranslated by Joel Barlow and those assembled there representing the Govt of the United States. How do we know, that Mr. Barlow didn't add this Article in, on the long sea voyage home. Either by his own doing or by orders from higher up. The fact that he was a Mason, I found very interesting, in the fact that, the Freemasons were/are not a Christian fraternity either.
Yes, a lot of our founding fathers were Freemasons, and a lot of what we see today in the documents written during the time have a Masonic undertone. Again, instead of high jacking this thread of Freemasons and the Founding of this country, I'll start another thread, as I stated before. I haven't yet, for the simple reason, I want to formulate the thread in the proper way and also to ASK permission of TS before posting something of a controversial nature....i do this out of respect for it being his site. Something I have done before in the past.