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The GOP's 'Democrats=Secularists' Campaign Had Some Truth

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Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians spew hatred at Freemason because they teach a doctrine of freedom oh thought, religion, and politics, and for zealots that is a threat.

Kevin of 2:59PM January 09, 2009

Duh!!
The Republican party (nee the party of right-wing reactionaries) waged a decades-long branding operation to make "liberal" a dirty word, in part by making it synonymous with "godless heathen" or some such?
What a perceptive statement.
Reagan? "duMbya?" Rove? Cheney? They don't attend church regularly because their security might disrupt the services. BULL! Simply put they are all non-religionists vote panderers.
The old chestnut that "Actions speak louder than words" has been totally turned on its head here in the good, whoops no longer are we good, so we will make it bad, in the bad, old U S of A. Today words speak totally! Actions mean nothing!!
Originate a big lie and it immediately becomes the unvarnished truth.
And, by the way, Where did the hatred about the Freemasons by ... of LA come from? What sort of offal is that?

Unreconstructed liberal in PA of PA 8:28AM December 30, 2008

Of LA wrote:
"The ''true'' anti-religion folks I find are the freemasons, they are a satanic mafia that has infiltrated every political party in the world, literally creating and destroying democracy by their mere presence.
George W. Bush is a freemason, along with many of his Republican friends, yet no one has ever coplained about him being ''anti-religious'', although I would be he sure is."
Are you kidding me? In order to become a Freemason, you must take an oath stating that you believe in "belief in a Supreme Being".
I am not a Freemason, but I am acutely aware of them because I am an Atheist.
Get your facts straight before you post.

Scott in Montana of MT 5:43AM December 30, 2008

WTF? That' about the most absurd tinfoil thing I've heard since the 9/11 Truthers started their march toward madness.

Freemason from hell of AR 2:58PM December 29, 2008

The spectre from the 1920s and 30s rears its intolerant head again. It must have been that Dan Brown book on some artist's code that resurrected that sort of idiocy about the "freemasons."
My dad was a Mason, but it was far from being free; it cost him a bundle! But they did a nice bit at his funeral to supplement the Baptist rites!

Asinus Gravis of TX 12:47PM December 29, 2008

The ''true'' anti-religion folks I find are the freemasons, they are a satanic mafia that has infiltrated every political party in the world, literally creating and destroying democracy by their mere presence.
George W. Bush is a freemason, along with many of his Republican friends, yet no one has ever coplained about him being ''anti-religious'', although I would be he sure is.

of LA 12:03PM December 29, 2008