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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Godless Constitution Constitutional Law without Gods or Religion

God, the Constitution, and the Christian Right: The Christian Right regularly claims that America is a “Christian Nation” and was founded on Christian principles. If this is the case, then those principles should be identifiable in America’s founding legal document, the Constitution. If the Constitution explicitly reflects Christian principles and doctrines, then the Christian Right is correct that America was founded on Christianity; otherwise, their claims are wishful thinking at best. So where are God and religion in the Constitution?   No...

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The Founding Fathers Were NOT Christians or Secular Humanists: a Refutation of Steven Morris

by Lewis Loflin Steven Morris complains that the Religious Right is rewriting American history to bolster a political agenda. Very true, but secular fundamentalists such as himself are doing the same thing. For secular fundies such as Morris, their low point came in 2004 with the re-election of George Bush. In fascinating article from The Nation entitled In God's Country (11/6/2006) secular fundamentalists lamented, ...the nine in ten Americans who have said they've never doubted the existence of God. Or the eight in ten who believe...

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