http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112884584&ft=1&f=2
"...when the group was organized from a stonemasons' guild in 1717, its members adopted the radical proposition that men of different faiths can agree on God's existence.
"They can agree that God compels them to do good in the community," Morris says. "And then they can stop talking about religion.""
And all before the US was even invented. Perhaps you can even give them partial credit for the notions of tolerance found in the Constitution. Also, its Constitution day!
"There were 9 founding fathers that were Freemasons. Benjamin Franklin, William Ellery, John Hancock, Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, Robert Paine, Richard Stockton, George Walton and William Whipple. George Washington was also a Freemason. "
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