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The_Edwards_Notebook-Were_the_Founders_Masons_or_Believers080726 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: Despite the often repeated lie about the Founding Fathers were
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  Speaker 1: all Masonic deists, many of them were actually firm believers
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  Speaker 1: in God, which is documented in their many writings. He
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  Speaker 1: Ron Edwards on Today's page from the Edwards Notebook, James Madison,
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  Speaker 1: the chief architect of the United States Constitution, wrote, and
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  Speaker 1: I quote, the religion, then of every man, must be
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  Speaker 1: left to the conviction and conscience of every man, and
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  Speaker 1: his right of every man to exercise it as they
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  Speaker 1: may dictate. This right is in its nature and unalienable right.
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  Speaker 1: It is unalailable because the opinions of men, depending only
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  Speaker 1: on the evidence contemplated by their own minds, cannot follow
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  Speaker 1: the dictates of other men. It is unalienable also because
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  Speaker 1: what is here a right toward men is a duty
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  Speaker 1: toward the Creator. It is the duty of every man
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  Speaker 1: to render to the Creator such homage and such only
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  Speaker 1: as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty
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  Speaker 1: is precedent both in order of time and in degree
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  Speaker 1: of obligation to the claims of a civil society. Before
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  Speaker 1: any man can be considered a member of civil society,
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  Speaker 1: he must be considered as a subject of the governor
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  Speaker 1: of the universe. Amen to that I'm Runedwards. Check out
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  Speaker 1: the Runadverts dot com.