Jack— liked your article very much but be careful of slipping into your own Christina rhetoric/biases here— your use of the Masonic symbolic image in the heading as a hint of something that represents conspiracy, is a conservative Christian talking point that undermines other spiritual perspectives. Many of the early Founders were freemasons, or were associated with them, and were not cultists. Far from it. In fact they were rationally-minded men and women of the Enlightenment with independent spiritual proclivities.