QUOTE(DeathStalker @ Oct 24 2006, 01:17 AM)
The Freemasons are not Satanic at all. They were the finding fathers of the United States; and chose to use the occult for the goodness and freedom of the country. They didn't want the issues of Europe (which came from Christianity) to have effect on the United States. They had no real religion, they were just practitioners of the occult for a cause, and their cause was to cease the movement of Christianity in the US and thus have an occult-safe country. That was one of their many reasons.
They're reasons are simple these:
1. To establish a free country where citizens could escape the severe oppression of Christianity and learn the ancient secrets of the past for themselves without any fear of losing their lives.
2. The United States was to be “The New Atlantis” and was meant to set a precedent for other nations of the world to follow in regards to spiritual knowledge.
3. To establish a free nation where each individual could become the best he/she could be.
There is more to this but you'd be better off googling.
DeathStalker
Well you're part right. Several of the founding fathers where masons. George Washington, Benjimin Franklin, etc. They were Christian though. One of the requirements for becoming a mason is a belief in God. One of the reasons for this is that the obligation has to be binding. The whole freedom of religion part of the constitution as well as a few other things were the result of the masons influence I guess you could say.