OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

The Neo-Pagans

Chapter 14 – The False Prophet

By Doug Krieger

Christian patriots, when the progressive voice of President Barack Obama is heard in the land, the “uncertain sound of the trumpet” may sound in your ears, but does it sound all that discordant in the ears of our Founding Fathers?

“President Barack Obama stated at a press conference in Turkey last week that we Americans ‘do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Muslim nation, but rather, a nation of citizens who are, uh, bound by a set of values.’

“Obama has made similar statements in the past. In June 2007, he told CBS, ‘Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just.  We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.’ Note the progression. In 2007, he said we are no longer ‘just’ a Christian nation. Now, in 2009, he says we ‘do not consider ourselves a Christian nation’ at all.” (Obama, Not a Christian Nation, John Eidsmoe, April, 2009, New American)

Or worse yet from a peculiar fellow on a miscellaneous blog regarding Papal power, predatory priests and pedophiles, and why civil law should trump religious enterprise:

“It is high time the Catholic grip was loosened and that of all other religions and that the only laws we should all adhere to are those of decency, human kindness and the law of the land we live in. Words from a bible/holy book should not be needed to teach us how to behave; we have grown beyond that as a species. All the strife due to religious beliefs and differences would become a thing of the past, millions of lives would be saved and all our coffers would be a great deal fuller.” (Child Abuse Scandal Costs US Catholic Church $3bn – Yahoo News, April 5, 2010)

There he goes again – calling our beloved Founding Fathers a bunch of Neo-Pagans.  Alas!  Is this not perhaps the most egregious accusation leveled within our hallowed halls?  Certainly, the shed blood of the framers of our Constitution was spilt on behalf of your freedom to express your ramble rousing but let us assure you, cross the line and that’ll be the last time your liberal use of expression is tolerated.  Sooner or later it was inevitable – that sacred company of seven (see below) would be adjudged as naught but enlightened pagans, hardly the stalwart crowd of Christian warriors set about to establish a more perfect union upon a hill – a golden city – a cup in the hand of the Lord – whereby her light would shine into the darkness and her cup held high in celebration of freedom’s fullness.  If the Tribnet were to take this cherished historicity from us by acclaiming our origins steeped in the paganism of the Greeks and Romans – having little but “cultural tolerance” for Moses and Jesus – then this revelation that our forebears were naught but a pack of sophisticated pagans would have a deleterious impact upon the American psyche and cause our decline to all the more descend into hedonism and atrophy into civil confusion.

OUR BELOVED FOUNDING FATHERS

First allow us to identify the progenitors of the American experiment:

 “Most historians define the ‘founding fathers’ to mean a larger group, including not only the Signers and the Framers (of the US Constitution) but also all those who, whether as politicians or jurists or statesmen or soldiers or diplomats or ordinary citizens, took part in winning American independence and creating the United States of America.^[2] The eminent American historian Richard B. Morris, in his 1973 book Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries, identified the following seven figures as the key founding fathers: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.^[3]

“Warren G. Harding, then a Republican Senator from Ohio, coined the phrase Founding Fathers in his keynote address to the 1916 Republican National Convention. He used it several times thereafter, most prominently in his 1921 inaugural address as President of the United States.^[4]” (Wikipedia – Founding Fathers)

Naturally, I would hasten to include such agnostics (at least regarding the “immortality of the soul”) as the curmudgeon himself, Thomas Paine, whose Common Sense was but one of his contrary publications; to wit:

“Paine greatly influenced the French Revolution. He wrote the Rights of Man (1791), a guide to Enlightenment ideas. Despite not speaking French, he was elected to the French National Convention in 1792. The Girondists regarded him as an ally, so, the Montagnards, especially Robespierre, regarded him as an enemy. In December of 1793, he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris, then released in 1794. He became notorious because of The Age of Reason (1793–94), his book advocating deism, promoting reason and freethinking, and arguing against institutionalized religion and Christian doctrines.^[3] He also wrote the pamphlet Agrarian Justice (1795), discussing the origins of property, and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income.” (Wikipedia – Thomas Paine)

Deism – which afflicted a number of our Founding Fathers – ultimately led to anti-Trinitarian propositions on the nature of the Divine.  The origins of creation are simply a manifestation of one’s religious and philosophical belief systems whereby a supreme being deigned to create the universe – all this can be determined by human reasoning and observation of the natural world; hence, there is no need for faith, and particularly the Judeo-Christian type of faith – bits, parts and pieces may be used as a moral compass of sorts from these sources, but that’s as far as she goes! 

God is on “remote control” – hardly a participant in the affairs of man.  If He is, it’s a unilateral proposition – He does what He destines in spite of our infractions to the contrary.  Why intervene through miracles and revelations, especially prophecy!  Ouch, that one hurts.  All this supernatural revelation espoused within sacred texts like the Bible is mere gibberish!  The “Supreme Architect” has an undisclosed plan for the universe and we poor, puny misanthropes – though contrive our religious systems as we may to determine that plan – are simply beyond the Divine Intelligence whereby we could ever determine the mind of the Almighty. 

The “God of revelation and authority” simply exists in the figment of our imaginations – with some having more figment than most (Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and other “enlightened souls”).  Most of those who embraced Deism wound up trumpeting the Age of Enlightenment – most were nominal Christians who couldn’t stomach a triune God, Jesus’ divinity, miracles or inspired biblical texts – they weren’t per se atheists – but esteemed their own human reason, though finite, was, nevertheless, the best that could be surmised, given the parameters of our constrictions.  One God was “out there somewhere, in some form” beyond our comprehension – and, if you think about it long enough, it is only reasonable enough to conclude that God alone explains the universe but that’s about it.  Unitarianism and Universalism (Christian and other forms) came out of Deism (though some “Christian Universalists” would strongly argue against such a conclusion – i.e. Christian Universalism’s been around a long time).

It might be summed up in this manner:  “If I only had a brain” – became, “I do have a brain and better start using it!”  Thus was born Common Sense, the Age of Reason, the Age of Enlightenment.  I wager that the birth of these United States had far more to do with the values underlying the Age of Enlightenment than the Judeo-Christian tenants which so many among the faithful vociferously espouse.  The Supreme Being was not engaged in the founding of this City Set on a Hill but was purposefully occluded from its origins – we could only admire Providence, certainly not be a participant in His omniscient will.  We were birthed on human brilliance, not upon divine revelation.  Our cause was man-made, not the result of answered prayer.  God was but an observer, man simply was doing what he was doing and trying his best in so doing, all the while the Supreme Being was either smiling or bemused at our feeble efforts.

Now, this, in the course of human history, leads us to some interesting conclusions – the least of which disassociates man’s collaborate efforts with the divine scheme (i.e. infinitesimal man – though he have a brain – is excluded from the Divine Being’s plan and purpose).  Again, man’s contemptuous aspiration to discern the divine intent is an affront to Destiny’s Desire – at best he can but observe the Observer and plod on the best he can…so the best that had been among the Greeks and Romans simply needed refurbishing, a sort of intellectual makeover, and presto, we’d have the democracy and freedom from tyrannical regimes for which we so longed; meanwhile, we could, through scientific observation and the like, advance man’s abilities beyond the strictures of religion’s tampering with the divine intent.

Instead, we’ve been given the tools (our brains) to figure this “thing” out – so let’s use them, not abuse them with all the presuppositions of religious pomposity. How dare we reach out to such supercilious notions of divine cooperation when man’s confinement is the only thing that is divinely ordained – and for good reason in that man, when attempting to sanction His purpose and meaning via divine interpretation, is more likely to extend “divine rights to kings who are but mere humans” upon the masses, thereby inhibiting the purposes of expression and creativity given to man by divine fiat in the first place!  Let’s quit playing God or attempting to interpret the Divine Mind through so-called “revelation given to man” and simply be what we were originally intended to be – the best and most expressive humans on the planet.

NATURE’S GOD

Nature’s God, therefore, is the god of deism.  It is this “god” which is embedded within the United States Constitution, not the God of revelation and authority, and certainly the “God of our fathers” is not the God of the Bible, for nature’s god has literally nothing to do with either Moses or Jesus, and certainly nothing to do with the Apostle to the Gentiles, Paul.  These enlightened souls were at best keen observers of Him Who dwells in unapproachable ambiguity.

I dare say the “founders” may have been, at best, impressed with the “moral authority” of the Bible’s overall message – but certainly not its absolutes, aside from propounding moral social norms of civility in society.  They may have taken, again at best, the Bible’s so-called moral persuasions as general norms of emancipating civilization; however, religion (especially the Christian religion) had not generated the enlightenment that inevitably gave birth to these United States; to the contrary, if anything, Judeo-Christian revelation was a supreme impediment to the creation of man’s mutual covenant with humanity. 

To assert the previous covenants – be they Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, Palestinian, New or Everlasting Covenants upon this sea to shining sea – is simply a gross reconstruction of history; although in 2003 Frank Lambert in the Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press) examined the religious affiliations and beliefs of the Founders wherein he found that some of the 1787 delegates had no affiliation. The others were Protestants except for three Roman Catholics: C. Carroll, D. Carroll, and Fitzsimons. Among the Protestant delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 28 were Church of England (Episcopalian, after the Revolutionary War was won), eight were Presbyterians, seven were Congregationalists, two were Lutherans, two were Dutch Reformed, and two were Methodists, the total number being 49 (the Baptists were too brilliant to be found among the founders). Some of the more prominent Founding Fathers were anti-clerical or vocal about their opposition to organized religion, such as Thomas Jefferson^[12][13] (who created the "Jefferson Bible"), and Benjamin Franklin^[14]. However, other notable founders, such as Patrick Henry, were strong proponents of traditional religion. Several of the Founding Fathers considered themselves to be deists or held beliefs very similar to that of deists.^[15]

This little tidbit from Wikipedia appears to downplay the “core Founders’” roles and the salient, even pervasive, impress of deism upon the Constitutional Convention.  Nature’s God was inserted into the US Constitution by Thomas Jefferson who was clearly a deist whose intention was to lay the foundation of a “civil religion” based upon toleration and respect for all religious faiths.  “So Jefferson helped create a society in which different religions could coexist peacefully because of the emphasis on morality over specific belief.” (Paul Johnson, The Almost-Chosen People, American History, R. J. Maddox, ed., vol.I, 10^th ed., Guilford, Conn:  Dushkin Publishing Group, 1989, p. 37)

Put another way:

“The American Deists of the Republican period abhorred both atheism and religious fanaticism. The Age of Reason (Paine) was written to dispute atheism and the evil trends Paine saw in France and Europe. To summarize, traditional Deism emphasized reason over revelation and that God/Allah is non-controlling. Human rights are based on Natural Law but morality, to Jefferson, on God/Allah. As Thomas Paine wrote: religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy.” (Who is Nature’s God)

CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONS OF THE NATION?

A plethora of organizations in the USA are committed to the proposition that the fundamentals of American democracy and establishment of this republic is steeped in Christian mores juxtaposed to the inane and/or nihilistic human reasoning of deists and most certainly, pagans, no matter how enlightened.  The tip of the iceberg is impressive among those who proclaim America’s Christian heritage:  WallBuilders, American Christian History Institute, Christian Discoveries, The Claremont Institute, The Declaration Foundation, America’s Christian Heritage Week, National Alliance Against Christian Discrimination, Christian Legal Society, American Vision, National Lawyers Association, The Foundation for American Christian Education, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Peter Marshall Ministries, The Providence Forum, The Providence Foundation . . . over 100 organizations are listed on the WallBuilders web site alone (you’ll hear more of WallBuilders later), acclaiming America’s Founding Fathers rooted in an unalterable biblical foundation.  With that much smoke there’s got to be some fire . . .and indeed there is; however, and in spite of the Founding Fathers periodic “Christian assumptions” – the preponderance of their mixture in invoking the political philosophies of Greece and Rome are staggering; and, good grief, what in the world is the goddess Minerva doing atop our nation’s capitol dome or, for that matter, the god Mars guarding the entry to our sacred citadel? (Please slightly notice the pagan influence throughout our nation’s capitol:  THE CLASSICAL TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE AND PAGAN SYMBOLISM OF WASHINGTON, DC.)

The concept that our Founding Fathers had in mind a “Christian Nation” is decidedly a quantum conjecture – at best we are a hybrid, a mixture of deism and natural law wherein some of the Founding Fathers were Christian in name and culture; indeed, the majority of those whose signatures bedeck our Constitution were, as we have so stated, from sundry Christian denominations, but hardly enthralled by any concept that they were giving birth to a “City Set on a Hill.”

But that said, the “influence” upon the founding of this Republic was decisively Deist and, worse yet, was bound to the classic Greeks and Romans in both political and legal frameworks.  It is to this deliberation that I wish to address and to the False Prophet’s attempts to proclaim liberty throughout the land under the guise of Christian parlance – i.e. these United States of America were and always have been an amalgamation of Church and State akin to the apostasy aforementioned in this series.  This mixture of paganism and Christianity constitutes the foundation of overt apostasy – friends, AMERICA WAS BORN IN APOSTASY!  Plain and simple and to the point – this admixture, no matter how contemptuous the sounds thereof to our patriotic brethren, is the wretched truth of the matter…let us illuminate this horrid fact.

THE FOUNDING FATHERS – THE NEO-PAGANS  

Let us delve into Richard B. Morris’ Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries – for these prominent plutocrats did more to shape our foundations than all the rest combined; although, I must add the mercurial figure of one, Thomas Paine, whose distinction in the writing of Common Sense, was acclaimed by John Adams:  “Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” (origins:  Joel Barlow)

Thomas Paine

Yes, the man who “stirred the American colonies to independence” and “History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine” (literally engraved upon his tombstone) had this to say about biblical revelation:

“When I see throughout the greater part of this book (the Bible) scarcely anything but a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales, I cannot dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.”

Or, how about these gems:

“What is it the Bible teaches us?—rapine, cruelty, and murder.  What is it the Testament teaches us?—to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.  It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I content.  The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.” (The Bloody Christian Faith, Thomas Paine and the Age of Reason)

Upon such respect were the biblical foundations of our nation founded!  Oh, and by the way, just to set the record straight, Paine was the son of a Quaker.  Allow me to say that if we were to have commenced our founding upon Pilgrim’s Rock, then would scores of pastors, teachers and beloved church elders confirm our founding as a Christian nation; however, nigh 175 years had passed and a wholly Neo-Pagan commencement was the order of the day.

Now, the mixed bag of one, Benjamin Franklin . . . (Deep appreciations for most of these discoveries go to Christian J. Pinto and his award-winning documentary series, Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings as well as his outstanding preface to Thomas Horn’s incredibly well-documented and written text, Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed.).

“God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?  We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel . . . In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered... do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?" [Constitutional Convention, Thursday June 28, 1787]

In regards to Franklin's request for prayer at the Constitutional Convention, he noted on his handwritten copy of the speech that, “the Convention, except three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.” Perhaps this was the kind of thinking that influenced him to later make his statement about lighthouses (i.e. when shipwrecked he noted that instead of placing a chapel upon the rocks which caused his demise, it had been better to establish a lighthouse thereon). (What is the meaning of this Ben Franklin quote “Lighthouses are more helpful then churches”? – WikiAnswers)

But what of Ben’s nefarious pursuits, in spite of signing all the original documents of our beginning (the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris, and the U.S. Constitution), he was intimately involved in Freemasonry, let alone in three secret societies in America, France and England (Franklin was master of the Nine Sisters Lodge, from which sprang the French Revolution – in England he “joined a rakish political group founded by Sir Francis Dashwood called ‘Monks of Medmenham Abbey’ also known as the ‘Hellfire Club.’”

Franklin’s vision of America’s beginnings were under girded by Dashwood, a member of Parliament and intimate of Franklin.  The Hellfire Club took part in “forms of satanic worship” as well as “the occult, orgies and parties with prostitutes” – all of which were the “norm” – a pretty bizarre “foundation” indeed!

Ever the scientist, Franklin appears to have, according to the Sunday Times article dated February 11, 1998, worked on a bunch of cadavers (at least four adults and six children) at a home that was being renovated.  The article states that “Initial estimates are that the bones are about two hundred years old and were buried at the time Franklin was living in the house, which was his home from 1757 to 1762 and from 1764 to 1775 . . . Most of the bones show signs of having been dissected, sawn or cut . . . One skull has been drilled with several holes.” 

The article goes on to state that experiments were performed on these bodies by one, Dr. William Hewson, who apparently worked alongside the founders of British surgery – the good doctor being one of Ben’s buddies.  Investigators are not sure that these bodies were “anatomical specimens that Dr. Hewson disposed of.”  If you were to visit the home today, however, the bones are literally shown as “the remains of William Hewson’s anatomy school!”

The article also states that the bones were “deeply buried, probably to hide them because grave robbing was illegal” – and suggests that more could and most probably are buried beneath Ben’s home . . . but there’s more to this macabre tale.  Mixed in with the human remains were those of “animal” remains.  These bones, according to the article, were charred or blackened, apparently by fire.  Researchers are a bit dubious regarding these discoveries having any “medical” value and suggest that the remains of animals have something to do with the Hellfire Club.  The “Club” consorted with Satanists wherein “ritual killings of both humans and animals” were not out of the question.  Good grief:  “Could Franklin and his Hellfire friends have been working with Hewson to provide the doctor with fresh bodies?” (so suggests Christian J. Pinto) – and I hasten to add:  Pinto’s suggestion is not as bizarre as it may sound, given the general history of what the Hellfire Club was all about!

But Pinto’s analysis of these findings disturbs:

“If the humans were medical cadavers, why were they disposed of like so much trash beneath the house?  Why not give them some kind of proper burial?  If grave robbers could sneak into a graveyard to steal a body, they could also sneak in to put one back.  Furthermore, why were the human remains mingled with those of animals?  It is worth noting that Dr. Hewson developed an infection from working on one of his cadavers and died from it.”

Regarding Franklin’s views of Christianity and the Lord Jesus Christ – he answered a Ezra Stiles, then president of Yale University, with a retort that is expressive of folks like Paine and Jefferson; to wit:

“I think the system of Morals and his (Jesus’) Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some ‘Doubts as to his divinity.’”

Further, he suggests that there were “corrupt changes” in the Gospel records – altogether typical of the Founding Fathers, i.e., they complimented the “morality of Christ” but rejected His authority.

Well, we’re batting 0 for 2 regarding the heritage of our Christian roots – but let’s move on to the “father of our country” and that of the Revolution, President George Washington:

Trying to get a clear reading on Washington’s belief about God or Jesus Christ, specifically, was left to George’s Episcopalian Bishop, James White, who provided naught but vague assertions as to Washington’s faith:

“I do not believe that any degree of recollection will bring to my mind any fact which would prove General Washington to have been a believer in the Christian revelation further than as may be hoped from his constant attendance upon Christian worship, in connection with the general reserve of his character.”

Assisting the good bishop was the Rev. James Abercrombie who apparently ministered to Washington for years.  When asked by a Dr. Bird Wilson regarding Washington’s faith, Abercrombie replied:

“Sir, Washington was a Deist.”

Upon Washington’s farewell address as president, certain members of the Christian clergy tried to “obtain a confession of faith, or a clear denial, from Washington” – Thomas Jefferson commented on this in his journal, by saying:

“Feb 1.—Dr. Rush tells me that he had it from Asa Green (chaplain to the Congress during Washington’s presidency) that when the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the Government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never on any occasion said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Christian religion and they thought they should so pen their address as to force him at length to declare publicly whether he was a Christian or not.  They did so.  However, he observed, the old fox was too cunning for them.  He answered every article in their address particularly except that, which he passed over without notice….I know that Governor Morris, who pretended to be in his secrets and believed himself to be so, has often told me that General Washington believed no more in the system (Christianity) than he did.”

Pinto destroys the edifice erected to Washington’s Christianity by authors Jerry A. Lillback and Jerry Newcombe, in their book, George Washington’s Sacred Fire, in which they seek to unalterably prove Washington to be an ardent Christian.

After a thousand pages of “proof texts” – about the only quote Lillback and Newcombe could deduce from Washington was:  “the Religion of Jesus Christ.”  After which, they set about to destroy their entire hypothesis by quoting Marquis de Lafayette, also a Freemason like Washington, as saying that Washington said:

“Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to Heaven, which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest, and least liable to exception.” 

Yes, “road to Heaven” – perhaps one of many pathways to glory?  Frankly, the phraseology used by Washington, is wholly Masonic.  Washington “viewed himself as an outsider to biblical Christianity” and simply indulged Christians by his church attendance.  Perhaps Washington viewed himself as being a man of “Christian character” – but this did not confirm his faith in Christ as the Son of God no more than it would have Gandhi’s admiration for Jesus.

Thomas Jefferson

How anyone amongst the patriotic pastors can conclude any semblance of Christianity to Tom Jefferson is beyond the pale of human history and reason!  Pinto’s damnable remarks sentence Jefferson to the abyss, along with the entitlement of ANTICHRIST.

“If there ever were a man utterly ruined and spoiled by vain philosophy, it was surely Thomas Jefferson.  Along with Thomas Paine, he was America’s greatest deceiver and antichrist—if you judge him according to the Scriptures.  Jefferson, perhaps more than any other, typifies the last-days ‘scoffers, walking after their own lusts’ warned about in the Bible (2 Peter 3:3, KJV).  Jefferson said this about the book of Revelation in a letter to General Alexander Smyth dated January 17, 1825:

‘It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (the book of Revelation) and I then considered it as merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.’”

In that same letter Jefferson made it ponderously clear to General Smyth that he had not repented of his tirade regarding the Apocalypse.  It is ludicrous to assume that because Jefferson thought Jesus was a fine teacher of morality that this in and of itself excuses Jefferson’s horrific and damning statements made against Christendom and its biblical figures.  Here’s what Jefferson said in a letter to William Short dated October 31, 1819:

“The greatest of all the Reformers of the depraved religion of his own country, was Jesus of Nazareth.  Abstracting what is really His from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its luster from the dross of his biographers, and as separable from that as the diamond from the dunghill.”

This outburst justified the writing of the infamous Jefferson Bible (titled: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth).  Likewise, in a letter to John Adams dated January 24, 1814, Jefferson wrote:

“Where did we get the Ten Commandments?  The book indeed gives them to us verbatim, but where did it get them?  For itself tells us they were written by the finger of God on tables of stone, which were destroyed by Moses….  But the whole history of these books is so defective and doubtful, that it seems vain to attempt minute inquiry into it….  We have a right to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine . . . In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds.  It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.”

Some of the “dunghills” alluded to in the Jefferson Bible included:  the virgin birth, the miracles of Christ, the resurrection of Christ and His ascension into heaven – and, of course, that nightmarish text written by John on the supposed Isle of Patmos, the Revelation, which is completed omitted from the Jefferson “Bible.”  In another letter written to Short on April 13, 1820, Jefferson wrote concerning Jesus Christ:

“Among the sayings and discourses imputed to Him by His biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture….  I separate, therefore, the gold from the dross…and leave the latter to the stupidity of some, and roguery of others of His disciples.  Of this band of dupes and imposters, Paul was the…first corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus.” 

So, 0 for 4 – moving on now to John Adams:

It’s very difficult to pen these guys down.  Why?  Because that’s the way they wanted it – hardly a resounding acclamation of Christian fortitude in the founding of the State . . . although the “patriotic pastors” will find this exceedingly disconcerting – but the truth is out there somewhere, but let me assure you, it wasn’t “the way, the truth and the life” of these Founding Fathers by any stretch of the imagination.

As America’s third president and close friend of Tom Jefferson, he, along with Jefferson and Franklin, diligently worked as a committee to design the Great Seal of the United States.  Adam’s was a Unitarian – his views on Christianity mirrored those of Paine, Jefferson and Franklin.  Alas!  Adams was an “enemy of the Cross of Christ” and boldly declared his animosity to it:

“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved—the Cross.  Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!” (A letter written to Thomas Jefferson, dated September 3, 1816)

James Madison

Madison’s penchant for the strict separation between the State and Religion is conclusive, harboring as he did, egregious contempt for the clergy and their religious meddling in the affairs of State.  If you were to ask of him that the Founding Fathers sought to establish a form of “Christian State” he would have been so outraged as to condemn you on the spot!

“That diabolical, hell-conceived principle of persecution rages among some; and to their eternal infamy, the clergy can furnish their quota of impasse for such business..." [James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr., January 1774]

“Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.” [James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr., January 1774]

“What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not.” [Pres. James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, addressed to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1785]

“Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.” [James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, addressed to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1785]

“The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well-meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.” [James Madison, Letter to F.L. Schaeffer, Dec 3, 1821]

Finally, it has been concluded that the Episcopalian Madison, like Washington, was simply a Deist in disguise – so it is said of him:

“A deist could go to church in the morning, rail against organized religion in the afternoon, and pen a speech in the evening praising the salutary effects of faith. Considered to have been a deist, James Madison, late in life, wrote, ‘Belief in a God All Powerful wise and good is so essential to the moral order of the World and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources.’ (Deism, One Nation Under A Clockwork God? James Breig, as found in Colonial Williamsburg)

Alexander Hamilton and John Jay

I think we may be batting 0 for 6 – moving on to 7 and 8…

Hamilton was shot and killed in a duel with Aaron Burr on July 12, 1804, and was thought to have uttered in his dying breath:

“I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.”

John Jay – given the fact that our first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by President George Washington, was truly an ardent follower of Christ – we are duly obliged to note his dedication to the Savior. 

Both gentlemen, however, could hardly be considered vociferous adherents to the concept of a Christian State – although they favored men of Christian persuasion at the helm of government.

NANCY PELOSI, FREEMASONS AND THE ROSICRUCIANS

In January 2007, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in the opening of the 110th Congress celebrated the passage of House Resolution 33 in recognizing “the thousands of Freemasons in every State of the Nation . . . Whereas the Founding Fathers of this great Nation and signers of the Constitution, most of whom were Freemasons (my emphasis), provided a well-rounded basis for developing themselves and others into valuable citizens of the United States.”

David Barton in his book, The Question of Freemasonry and the Founding Fathers, wrongly asserts that the Founding Fathers’ form of Freemasonry was “Christian” in its essence.  Barton contends that Freemasonry was later corrupted by the likes of Albert Mackey and Albert Pike.  In Pinto’s Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings, he traces American Masonry back to England during the time of Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626).  Sir Francis is considered by most to be the first grand master of modern Masonry.  The doctrinal nexus of Freemasonry is the embrace of the world’s religions alongside Christianity – this is the “inner core” juxtaposed to the “outer doctrine” of this secret society; furthermore, Rosicrucianism, the forerunner of Masonry, is likewise misunderstood (in so far as its connection with that of Freemasonry).

Bacon’s confidant was a Dr. John Dee, who was the court astrologer for Queen Elizabeth I.  Dr. Dee’s sorcery was well known in the court wherein he would “summon demonic spirits to obtain secret knowledge.”  Dr. Dee was the “chief Rosicrucian” in England.  The quest within Rosicrucianism has always been to know the secrets of science (i.e., knowledge) – hence, inquiring demonic powers (or “knowledge from a knowing one”) regarding such knowledge is/was commonplace.

Sir Francis Bacon apparently made contact with one of these demonic spirits, including the goddess Pallas Athena – his “inspirer.”  Dr. Dee bequeathed England’s Rosicrucian Society to Bacon who in turn enclosed it within the system of Freemasonry.  Is there, therefore, any wonder that Sir Francis Bacon became the father of the modern “scientific method?” Or, the likes of Ben Franklin and Tom Jefferson who were so enthralled by the “method” and religiously followed its pursuits?  Alas!  Rosicrucians claim Franklin and Jefferson as their own.

The connection between Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism and Gnosticism is irrefutable:

 “Rosicrucians and Freemasons such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Charles Thomson inspired the Constitution of the United States. Thomson, the designer of the Great Seal of the USA, was a member of Franklin’s American Philosophical Society, the equivalent of the English ‘Invisible College’. The Seal is inspired by the alchemical tradition, inherited from the allegory of the ancient Egyptian Therapeutate. The eagle, the olive branch, the arrows and the pentagrams are all occult symbols of the opposite: good and evil, male and female, war and peace, darkness and light. On the reverse (as also on the dollar bills) is the truncated pyramid, indicating the loss of the Old Wisdom, severed, and forced underground by the Church. The rays of ever-hopeful light, incorporating the ‘all-seeing-eye’, were used as a symbol during the French revolution. Before creating the Republic the USA wanted to create a monarchy.  Charles III Stuart was contacted but he refused and the Republic was born.

“The Rosicrucian movement’s origins are to be found in the intellectual desire to investigate the inheritance of ancient philosophy and to carry on the quest for the true origin of the human condition. Rosicrucianism, as it is known today, announced its rebirth with the publication of the two ‘Rosicrucian manifestos’ in 1614 and 1615 in Germany. Their author, Christian Rosecreuz, is described as the founder of the ancient order of the Rose Cross. This revival of the Rosy Cross was an attempt to illustrate the more esoteric components of Gnosticism. During this revival Gnosticism found new expression in the promotion of a religious interpretation of alchemy supported by the study of numbers, a science that dates from the construction of the Temple, and the use of Geometry to define the quantity of perfection.

“The manifestos, and the age of enlightenment they promoted, arrived in a Europe ready for profound changes. The Enlightenment in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries France owes its origin in large part to hermetic thought at the core of which we find Gnosticism and its belief in the religious philosophy of tolerance and natural harmony. This revival of Pythagoreanism and Platonism can be seen as an extension of the ancient practice of preserving wisdom through the use of geometry considered as sacred.” (The Rose-Croix)

Pinto rightly conjectures:

“Like the Gnostics, the Rosicrucians craved knowledge; it was this desire that led them to worship Lucifer.  The secret orders regard Lucifer as the ‘angel of light’ who, in the form of a serpent, bid mankind to partake of the ‘Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil’ so that their eyes would be open and they could become as gods.  This is the inner doctrine of Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and all the secret orders—and always has been.  In the nineteenth century, when Masons like Pike and Mackey (along with leading occultists such as Eliphas Levi and Madame H. P. Blavatsky) described this doctrine in their writings, they were only admitting in print what had been secretly known for centuries.  The difference was that with the revolutionary movement, freedom of religion allowed them to publish such things without fear of persecution.”

ROSSLYN CHAPEL

The year Columbus landed in the New World, 1492, the Scottish Freemasons built a little chapel called Rosslyn.  This puzzling structure is peppered with both Christian and Pagan symbols, carvings and icons. 

Why?  Because, Freemasons’ inner knowledge demands the consolidation of all religious beliefs into one.  The Knights Templar, who were thought to have fled to Scotland with their distinctive red crosses, circa 1307, would simply transfer that “red cross” to the rose cross of Rosicrucianism.  During the Scottish Jacobite rebellions in the early 1700s a good many Masons and Rosicrucians fled to America – emigrating with them were their occult doctrines.  The Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4 – one of the Masons’ power centers in the Americas – included the likes of George Washington, James Monroe, along with at least eight Revolutionary War generals. 

Tell me, now; is there a casual association of carving Masonic doctrines in stone here in the New World?  I think so – I enjoin you to tell me why in our nation’s capitol there are scores of gods and goddesses, zodiacs, the Washington Monument (an Egyptian Obelisk), reflecting pools and a huge panoply of pagan imagery – go figure, not one monument to Christ, nor to the apostles or, for that matter sorely lacking are any symbols or imagery to the Christian faith…and don’t tell me that had anything to do with the “separation of Church and State” – hardly!

MASONIC DECEPTION

Manly P. Hall has been called “Masonry’s greatest philosopher” in America’s leading Masonic publication.  Hall claims in his text, The Secret Destiny of America, deception and pretense are the tools of Masons to camouflage their intentions.  The Christian faith, which broke up paganism’s secret societies—driving many of them into obscurity—simply redressed themselves in the garb of Christian phraseology, but kept the “secrets” within their core beliefs.  Those initiated into the evolving secret societies were “bound to secrecy.”

Hall contends that these secret societies have been operational in the Americas for centuries, and that our Founding Fathers of the American Revolution were intimately engaged in these secret societies.  Go figure, before you brand Hall a conspiratorialist, consider this:  How many pagan monuments to the Pantheon of the gods in Washington D.C. were erected by Christians?  Or, were those involved in such overtly pagan monuments pretending to be Christians, but inwardly (let alone outwardly) they held to a secret and hidden agenda, just as their “greatest philosopher” tells us?

DAVID BARTON’S CHRISTIAN-SPEAK AND PAGANISM = APOSTASY

David Barton’s text, Freemasonry and the Founding Fathers, disturbingly defends the use of pagan symbols with the following contention (again, quoting from Christian J. Pinto in the preface to Thomas Horn’s text, Apollyon Rising 2012:  The Lost symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed) . . . quoting Pinto:

“Americans in recent generations have not been trained in classical literature—a training that was routine in the Founding Era.  Therefore, present-day Americans are not inclined to consider structures from the ancient empires (such as the pyramids), or to be familiar with their heroes (such as Cato, Cicero, and Aeneus), or even with their writers (such as Homer, Virgil, Herodotus, and especially Plutarch).

“If you take the time to look up the works of Homer, Virgil, etc., you will find that these ancient writers/philosophers were writing about the gods and goddesses of the ancient world.  All of these gods are called devils in the Bible (I Corinthians 10:20).  The same deception is used to describe the statue of Liberty, where reference is made to ‘Liberty’s classical origins.’  The placard on Liberty Island goes on to say that the statue was based on the Roman goddess Libertas.  Were the statue judged from a biblical viewpoint, it would tell of Liberty’s demonic origins.  The clever use of the word ‘classic’ is simply evidence of satanic duplicity.  David Barton’s incredible delusion seems to be that if Satan and his demons are put in a book designated as ‘classical literature,’ then they are somehow sanitized and no longer offensive to God.  But in the Bible, God says, ‘Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens’” (Jeremiah 10:11).

Pinto has an outstanding point here:  “Why would any Bible-believing Christian want to build statues and monuments to exalt spiritual powers that God has condemned to destruction?”  How quaint of the Founding Fathers to couch their symbolism within the context of “classical literature” wherein demons somehow derive an air of respectability, acceptance – sort of a “learning tool” or shall we say:  BLATANT DECEPTION!  God bless the Dutchman, Erasmus, the Catholic reformer (and certainly NOT an atheistic humanist as some ignorantly assume), who surmised their falsehood:

“Under the cloak of reviving ancient literature, paganism tries to rear its head, as there are those among Christians who acknowledge Christ only in name but inwardly breathe heathenism.”

It is here that we should insert that the pagan philosopher, David Barton, is likewise the President of the patriotic organization mentioned at the beginning of this exposure:  WallBuilders!  Which explains his insipid inclination to incorporate Christian-speak and symbolism into the founding of these United States; yet, Barton’s paganism fits the motif of Americana – founded as it is upon nothing more than an APOSTATE FOUNDATION wherein the Christian Religion and the State find their adulterous mixture in full measure.  Be careful which “god is blessing America!”  You may be singing to the top of your lungs a National Anthem based upon growing evidence that its foundations are steeped in Kosmokrator - “the god of this world” – who had glowing designs upon that which you thought had a rich Christian heritage.

“GAOTU” – “GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE”

Masonry has developed an almost stealth nomenclature of religious gibberish, allowing virtually any and all terminology to equate to some form of deity – with their favorite being GAOTU – “Great Architect of the Universe.” 

David Barton shamelessly calls the early Masons a “Christian” organization whose idea as such (i.e., “Christian organization”) developed shortly after the “founding era.”  Somehow this justifies George Washington’s overt excitement regarding Freemasonry.  But, pray tell, how is it that Barton correctly states that Christianity’s “Only one God is worshipped—and that God is not the universalist deistic god that Masonry denotes as the ‘Great Architect of the Universe’?”  Barton’s disclosure fails to reveal that our first president when writing to the Massachusetts Grand Lodge on December 27, 1792, entombed:  “I sincerely pray that the Great Architect of the Universe may bless you and receive you hereafter into his immortal Temple.”

Albert Pike did not invent GAOTU.  George Washington and the early American Masons were well familiar with GAOTU.  Stop your wonderment – George Washington scarcely mentioned Jesus Christ in all his writings (aside from “the religion of Jesus Christ”) and that is precisely why his own pastor called him a Deist!

ILLUMINATI SYMBOLISM

Now you’ve really done it!  Sooner or later Doug Krieger would delve into the Illuminati – well, at least its symbolism.  Better yet, and not to give Illuminists too much fanfare, they are, however, deeply embroiled in what is branded as Pythagorean Masonry.  The Illuminists (that inner core of Freemasonry) were an assortment of highfalutin’ intellectuals who gratified themselves in the teachings of the Greek and Roman philosophers – i.e., the “classical authors” which WallBuilders’ president, pagan philosopher and patriot Barton defends. 

Pythagorean philosophy was embraced by our Revolutionary heroes, the Founding Fathers.  Indeed, the Pythagorean theorem and its right triangle, is the reason, according to Masonic author David Ovason, for the Federal Triangle in Washington DC – i.e., it was designed that way.

Again, from Pinto:

“Dr. James H. Billington, in his book, Fire in the Minds of Men, writes about the revolutionary faith that was inspired by the Bavarian Illuminati.  Bear in mind that Billington is not a ‘conspiracy writer,’ but the thirteenth Librarian of Congress and a friend of the Bush family.  He is as official a historian as you can find.  President George W. Bush quoted Billington’s book in his 2005 inaugural address after he was elected for his second term.  In his exhaustive work, Dr. Billington presents a whole section titled, ‘The Pythagorean Passion,’ in which he says:  ‘A vast array of labels and images was taken from classical antiquity to legitimize the new revolutionary faith.’”

Pinto brings out the association that Billington has with “classical” antiquity (i.e., pagan symbolism).  Billington continues:

“Pythagoras, the semi-legendary Greek philosopher, provided a model for the intellectual-turned-revolutionary,.  He became a kind of patron saint for romantic revolutionaries.” 

Is there any wonder then that the founder of the Bavarian Illuminati, Adam Weishaupt, named his “final blueprint for politicized Illuminism…Pythagorus?”

Billington claims “Revolutionaries…repeatedly attached importance to the central prime numbers of Pythagorean mysticism:  one, three, seven, and above all five” (i.e., the Satanic “pentagram”).  Interestingly enough, Pythagoras called the pentagram the pentalpha, which may account for many Masonic lodges called Pentalpha lodges.

Ever wonder why there is a pentagram in the Washington DC street layout? 

There really isn’t any controversy as to whether or not the layout of Washington DC has embedded within it such a Pentagram – aerial photos make it obvious.  Masons may deny its existence and their responsibility for it and claim that the Rhode Island Avenue’s extension truncates the Pentagram – therefore we may ask:  (1) Was the Pentagram intentional or a coincidence in the geometric scheme of things? or (2) Why was the Pentagram designed incomplete?  The answer appears to be (2) in that Manly P. Hall, Masonry’s greatest philosopher explains:

“The pentagram is used extensively in black magic, but when so used its form always differs in one of three ways:  The star may be broken at one point by not permitting the converging lines to touch….  When used in black magic, the pentagram is called the ‘sign of the cloven hoof’ or the ‘footprint of the devil.’”

Scary, but Hall was writing from the vantage of the Twentieth Century – yet, were the Founding Fathers familiar with this symbolism?  Yes!  The greatest Master Mason of all times was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  In his play, Faust, he summons Mephistophiles (the Devil) to conclude a pact with him.  When the Devil tries to depart, he is delayed – giving way to the following exchange between Faust and Mephistophiles:

Mephistophiles:

Let me go up!  I cannot go away; a little hindrance bids me stay.  The Witch’s foot upon your sill I see.

Faust:

The pentagram?  That’s in your way?  You son of Hell, explain to me, If that stays you, how came you in today?  And how as such a spirit so betrayed?

Mephistophiles:

Observe it closely!  It is not well made; One angle, on the outer side of it, Is just a little open, as you see.

There you have it, the “open” or “broken” pentagram is used in Faust to summon the Devil as part and parcel of a black magic ceremony.  Goethe was not only a Mason but a major player in the Bavarian Illuminati.  Freemasons are effulgent in declaring Goethe’s Masonic symbolisms as their own. 

In 1790 the first edition of Faust was made – two years later Pierre L’Enfant (no doubt with Thomas Jefferson assisting) designed the streets of Washington DC (1791-1792).  It is no quantum leap to suggest that these designers were knowledgeable regarding the “broken pentagram” and its hidden meaning before the street layout was completed.  Perhaps this does not intentionally prove the pentagram’s design in Washington DC, but is it such a coincidence that Faust and the DC street layout were done in such close chronological order?  American and European Freemasonry were intertwined – the connection is altogether plausible – L’Enfant and Jefferson could, therefore, be said to have conspired and intentionally placed the pentagram at the heart of our nation’s Capitol!

Again, David Barton and other Masonic apologists who delight the History Channel repeatedly deny that neither L’Enfant nor Thomas Jefferson were Masons – then they strike out at the “conspiratorialists” in their disinformation campaign to slight the Masons (viz. the Satanic symbol of the pentagram is simply too much for them to bear).  Could it be as Pinto suggests that Barton et al are either ignorant or deliberately withholding information?  I think we know the answer.

AMERICA:  THE NEW ATLANTIS

Pinto’s documentary series, Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings, connects Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism; confirms their origins in Elizabethan England and clearly traces their involvement in the colonization of America.  Yes, Christians in the form of the Puritans and Pilgrims made it to our shores, but they were not alone . . . the “secret societies” saw in America “the New Atlantis” which had been originally envisioned by Sir Francis Bacon. 

Pinto’s discoveries astound:

“There is even a 1910 Newfoundland six-cent stamp (with three sixes on it, no less) with the image of Bacon that reads:  ‘Lord Bacon, the Guiding Spirit in Colonization Scheme.’”

Sir Francis Bacon’s impress upon the New World is unmistakable.  His occultist philosophies are interwoven into the American experiment.  Have you ever wondered who coined the phrase:  Knowledge is power?  You guessed it, your friendly Rosicrucian-Mason, Sir Francis Bacon, the man from New Atlantis.  That knowledge would be pursued through scientific discovery – scientific discovery which has guided and propelled America into the New Atlantis -  a society described in Bacon’s The New Atlantis whose structures reach to the heavens, wherein flying machines and weapons of mass destruction, and incessant pleasures and entertainment abound.  Ah, yes, the magnification of sounds and animal experimentation for the benefit of humanity.  Don’t be ridiculous – but I’m not.  Bacon’s blueprint has been followed to the “T” – especially by the Founding Fathers, from the get go!

The “inner doctrine of Masonry” is Rosicrucianism:  The “intrinsic mingling” (where two elements are indistinguishable) of Christianity with paganism takes place within the crucible of, once again, the American experiment – the ultimate alchemy.  Now, is not your understanding of the Founding Fathers much clearer?  Just what were they all about?  Listen, a Rosicrucian can easily quote the Scriptures and point to Christ, Jesus, the Savior, etc., while simultaneously extolling the virtues of Plato, Aristotle and any number of Greco-Roman celebrities – gazing upon their gods, excluding their avarice, while embracing their virtue and justice – a love affair made in hell!

Mather Walker entitles Bacon’s New Atlantis as The Land of the Rosicrucians (See:  Mather Walker’s Light on Bacon’s New Atlantis).  Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:  Is this not what America has become?  Have not these secret societies achieved their most wretched goals?  Alas!  Rising up out of the sea – the New Atlantis!  Does this not explain the so-called rise of paganism throughout our land?   Sadly, yet tragically, this was and has always been their plan from our commencement. 

We wrestle – we of faith in the Son of God, the Son of Man, the One True God, and the Savior of our souls, the Lord Jesus Christ – not against the “flesh and blood” of terrorists, communists, or liberals, but against those unseen forces which wage their warfare against the one true God – that “manifestation” which has always been the dream of paganism!

Indeed!  The Two Witnesses are slain in the “Street of the Great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified” (Revelation 11:8) – and now you know of Sodom and of that mystical Egypt of the Rosicrucian.

I boldly suggest to you that the apostate mixture of this Stately Religion with its imagery as seen in the Revelation (chapter 17) where the Harlot Rides the Beast, is precisely the imagery which so rightly befits our current plight.  The Mystery Religions of Babylon have been incorporated into the New Atlantis!  Yet we, but Pilgrims and Strangers, seek a City Whose Builder and Maker is God – not a bunch of Masons and their New Atlantis envisioned by Sir Francis Bacon.  The next time you boast of your concept of America amidst patriotic hyperbole – beware, your boast is wrought with a Pentagram smack dab in the middle of her Capitol!  How could this happen?  It did and it does.  Listen, you’re a stranger and a pilgrim – YOU HAVE HERE NO CONTINUING CITY – but seek another – your citizenship is in heaven from whence comes your salvation.

Will the False Prophet use this present deception for his final venture?  You better believe he shall and is so doing as we draft this outrage against his clever devices – devices of which we are not ignorant nor dismiss as fairytales and conspiracy theories.  This tome strikes at the heart of Christians who are being deceived into believing a monstrous tale – a gargantuan lie from the pit of hell.  Therefore, is our quest for truth enhanced by our beloved brethren like Christian J. Pinto and Thomas Horn who unabashedly declare from whence this Imposter has wrought his craft.  Brethren, we don’t fit into that Pentagram in DC – never have and never will.

And, now, a final word from the “corrupted” pen of Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles – especially to one, Thomas Jefferson, and to all who ignorantly embrace our Founding Fathers as stalwart carriers of the Christian faith:

“However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

“But as it is written:  ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’  But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.  For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.  For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?  Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.  Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.  These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 

“But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.  For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?’  But we have the mind of Christ” (I Corinthians 2:6-15).