From yesterday.
>I kind of take the Founding Masons as fairly decent folks. So I have a hard time figuring out when the kid fucking and the shit started.
Thomas Jefferson wrote an edited version Bible and deleted all references to Christ's miracles or Deity. Benjamin Franklin proudly admitted to being a Deist. Both were Deists and Freemasons. Franklin was a Grandmaster. And don't forget that in 1998, hundreds of human bones were found under Franklin's home in London. The skeletal remains of more than 15 people and half a dozen children.
>Before and after the founding.
This is true. Wheat and Tares were both part of founding this Nation.
You’re assuming every mason is evil.
There are only two types of Freemasons. Those who are evil, and those whom they deceive.
“"The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shallunderstand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry."” Morals and Dogma, page 819
“"Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations ofits symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it.” Morals and Dogma, pages 104-105.
That meme is an all-time favorite. One of the best.