Ethan Allen on God, Reason, Prayer, & Religion

In this final installment of our special series on the Founding Fathers and their thoughts on God, Religion, & the Divine, we move to farmer, politician, and guerilla revolutionary leader Ethan Allen, who perhaps is best known for leading the Green Mountain Boys (and other fighters) in their raid and capture Fort Ticonderoga, a strategic victory which severely hampered communication between the northern and southern units of the British army. Like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, Ethan Allen might be best described as a Progressive...

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Ethan Allen From Philosopedia

Ethan Allen From Philosopedia Allen, Ethan [Colonel] (21 January 1738 - 12 February 1789) A hero of the American Revolution, Allen in 1784 wrote, “I have generally been denominated a Deist, the reality of which I have never disputed, being conscious that I am no Christian, except mere infant baptism makes me one; and as to being a Deist, I know not, strictly speaking, whether I am one or not.” He found trinitarianism “destitute of foundation, and tends manifestly to superstition and idolatry.”...

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Albert Pike did not found the Ku Klux Klan

The quoted texts excerpted under the heading of "Misinformation" are taken from a posting to the Usenet newsgroup alt.freemasonry on Tuesday, 19 January 1993 from John Covici, reposted pseudonymously by Nomen Nescio on Monday, 11 September 2000 and later uploaded to the anonymously maintained Freemasonry Watch website. The facts are noted on the far right. The order of presentation is dictated by the original posting. Although easily disproven as either maliciously mendacious or wilfully ignorant, the texts have been extensively used on at least...

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