From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 06:21:06 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Masons and Fnords
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At 4:53 pm -0400 on 8/9/97, Mike Duvos wrote:


> Correct.  Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and others were Deists,

Well, Unitarians like to claim Jefferson, because of a nice letter he wrote
to Joseph Priestly. Of course, we like to claim *all* the cool people...

> and
> Masons, and would have laughed hysterically at the absurd notion of the
> divinity of Jesus Christ.

Agreed.

Of course, exactly how a self-proclaimed congenital Republican small-"a"
crypto-anarchist like me got to be a Unitarian, well, only, um, God, knows.

She must be laughing somewhere...

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga


"Religeon is like dandruf..." -- Robert Heinlein

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