5 Founding Fathers Whose Skepticism About Christianity Would Make Them Unelectable Today

[RevStPatrick]

18. Years ago, I worked in the building in Manhattan...

...that hosts the Masonic Lodge there, on 23rd street.
It was a telemarketing job or whatever, but one day at lunch I snuck upstairs to the upper floors where the lodge is.

Let me tell you, it was pretty cool!
They had a couple of the famous paintings of Washington in his Masonic garb, including this one, if I'm not mistaken:



or maybe it was this one (it was a long time ago):



And I'm sure they were the originals, not copies.

On another day during my lunch break, I went to the lodge and talked to a man who was about 90 years old. I asked him "So you guys run the world, right?" He laughed and asked me what my interest in Masonry was, and I said that I wanted to know who runs the world. He was very nice, and we talked for about a half hour, and as I left I said "You know, you never once denied that you guys run the world!" And he just chuckled again.

Years later, I found myself in a conversation with a Fundy type, and it was one of those crazy kind of conversations that is so easy to have with Fundies, and at some point I said "You know, George Washington was a Freemason."
He said, "You're a liar! No way was our founding father a Freemason."
"Um, yes, I was in the Manhattan lodge and I saw the painting of Washington in his apron with my own two eyes."
He kept on insisting that I was wrong, and I finally just shrugged and said "whatever..."

I don't really remember what this has to do with anything...