Shmaryahu b. Chanoch
7/30/2010 3:13:00 PM
On Jul 30, 10:39 am, lee <schotn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 July, 12:52, "Shmaryahu b. Chanoch" <omega....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 30, 2:25 am, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...@yahoo.com>
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> > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:05:50 +0000, Giorgies E Kepipesiom wrote:
> > > > Among the signers of the American Declaration of Independence there were
> > > > Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, and Lewis Morris of New York. There was
> > > > also Gouverneur Morris, who is believed to have written the preamble to
> > > > the Constitution, which document he signed as a delegate from
> > > > Pennsylvania. A perusal of short biographis of these three founding
> > > > fathers, in several sources, reveals nothing about their religions. Is
> > > > it possible that one or more of them was Jewish?
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> > > No they weren't, the closest we get to a Jewish founding father was Haym
> > > Solomon who helped finance the revolution.
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> > There were 24 Jews who were officers in the Revolutionary Army. And
> > there were many Jews in the Freemasons which was basically the
> > Revolutionary committee.
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> See I always knew these Jews were troublemakers....-
Not the point, even though there are those who see "things" in Jews
and the Freemasons. The US Constitution was basically patterned after
the Freemason lodge. The office remains but the men move on. In that
era, there was great openness towards Jews within the Freemasons. And
great opportunities.
Remember that most of the founders, given that they were Freemasons,
had views of christianity that are very different than today. They
did not believe in the Trinity (Puritans even rejected Christmas) for
example. They were very open to the Talmud, many even studied it.
Issac Newton, a Freemason, wrote many papers against the Trinity.
It was about 1805 that we had a reaction against Masonic lodges. It
was then that we started seeing more anti semitism. And in Germany
and Russia the authorities feared both the Jews and Freemasons as a
threat against their power. Thus they had agents become Freemasons
who spread anti Jewish attitudes.
It was an unique period that opened a window for a very brief time.
It was both liberal yet embraced much of what we would call social
conservative thought.