AP Exclusive: Romney uses secretive data-mining
The Associated Press - 18 minutes ago
By JACK GILLUM, AP - 1 minute ago WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney's success in raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the costliest presidential race ever can be traced in part to a secretive data-mining project that sifts through Americans' personal...
The Associated Press - 18 minutes ago
By JACK GILLUM, AP - 1 minute ago WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney's success in raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the costliest presidential race ever can be traced in part to a secretive data-mining project that sifts through Americans' personal...
Wiki: Anti-Masonic Party::
The Anti-Masonic Party was formed in upstate New York in 1828.
Some people feared the Freemasons, believing they were a powerful secret society that was trying to rule the country in defiance of republican principles. These opponents came together to form a political party after the Morgan affair convinced them the Masons were murdering their opponents. This key episode was the mysterious disappearance, in 1826, of William Morgan (1774-1826?), a Freemason of Batavia, New York, who had become dissatisfied with his lodge and intended to publish a book detailing the secrets of the Freemasons. When his intentions became known to the lodge, an attempt was made to burn down the publishing house. Finally in September 1826 Morgan was arrested on charges of petty larceny. Someone paid his debt and upon his release he was seized by parties and taken to Fort Niagara, after which he disappeared.[2]
Mormonism is a Secret Society based on a Secret Society -- Freemasonry::
Wiki: Mormonism and Freemasonry::
The relationship between Mormonism and Freemasonry began early in the life of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Jr., as his older brother and possibly his father were Freemasons while the family lived near Palmyra, New York. Nevertheless, in the late 1820s, the western New York region was swept with anti-Masonic fervor, and the Book of Mormon, a foundational religious book published by Smith in 1830, is generally considered to reflect that anti-Masonic sentiment by condemning what it portrays as oath-bound conspiratorial organizations.
Ankerberg: How is the Mormon Temple ritual like the Masonic rituals?
Joseph Smith joined the Free Masons in 1842, prior to establishing the LDS temple ritual (History of the Church, by Joseph Smith, Deseret Book, 1978, Vol.4, Ch.32, p.550-2). This experience seems to have sparked his imagination and shortly thereafter he introduced his own secret ceremony, with similar wording and gestures. In the Encyclopedia of Mormonism we read:
The introduction of Freemasonry in NAUVOO had both political and religious implications….Eventually nearly 1,500 LDS men became associated with Illinois Freemasonry, including many members of the Church's governing priesthood bodies—this at a time when the total number of non-LDS Masons in Illinois lodges barely reached 150. (Encyclopedia of Mormonism, vol.2, p.527)
While the Masonic ceremony centers on the story of Hiram Abiff and the building of Solomon's temple, the LDS ritual focuses on the creation story and the fall of Adam and Eve. In Smith's new ritual the initiate is dressed in a white garment with the markings of the Masonic compass and square embroidered on the area of the breast. Smith also copied the Masonic handshakes, passwords, penalty oaths and the embrace on the five points of fellowship. However, in 1990 the LDS leaders revised their ceremony and some of these elements were removed, such as the embrace on the five points of fellowship. For further information on the LDS temple ritual, see this article: http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no75.htm.
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