Did your Sunday school teach you about the sin of Hypocrisy?

 

Mine did not. I don't ever remember hearing about the sin of Hypocrisy in Sunday school, not during the childhood years when kid's brains are sponges. Hypocrisy got covered in the older youth group, but only in passing, as a bad Pharisee thing.
It wasn't until I joined the now defunct CrossWalk forums in the early 2000s that I dug into studying the scripture dealing with hypocrisy on my own (because I desired and did win a debate taking on the "Don't Judge" trope — both Mt 7:1 and Rom 2:1 contextually fall under Hypocrisy).
But my findings and My Point is: With the exception of failure to accept Jesus, Hypocrisy is probably the greatest of the "sleeper sins" that civil law never addresses. Hypocrisy brought out Jesus' righteous anger whereas the sins most people think are worse were met with compassion.

...if you are able to call out hypocrisy as a genuine warning instead of as an insult, that would be an act of love.

Did Freemasons found America?

 

I keep running into people who post on political forums that REALLY, REALLY (without knowing anything about me) seem to be on a mission to convince me that Freemasons founded America.  That America was corrupt and bad from the get-go.They take No Excuses for not swallowing their spiel!  They particularly like to quote George Washington complimenting the Freemasons' good works in their attempts to convince me that he was "all in" and part of a traitorous plot to destroy the fledgling nation. 

I don't buy that. The following is my answer to one of these folks:

This is somewhat misleading BECAUSE... Satan was late to the party. During colonial America, Freemasonry had not yet gotten a strong foothold. It was largely business networking, akin to the lower three levels of Freemasonry today: male socializing, contact hobnobbing, and a side of charity work. The deep weird stuff, the freemasonry of France, was an ocean away. The masons were present, but not strong enough to effectively influence the culture.

 
The TIPPING POINT on that can be traced to around 1789-1791. By the Lord's Providence, America had her Constitution written and ratified before the masonic infestation could push their ideas with any degree of impact. That started to change when Pierre L'Enfant leveraged those "business contacts" and obtained the contract to design the new capital of Washington DC in 1791.

So here's the Truth: The founding of the District of Columbia (Washington) was the beginning of Freemasonry being able to make inroads in our government. Our founding documents had been written and voted upon prior to masonic influence. Satan was metaphorically still spreading tares when the Founding Fathers made their covenants. By the time they germinated and the thief's crop could be harvested, our Declaration of Independence (which Honored our Creator), and our Constitution (which was patterned after biblical law) had already been secured. Freemasonry has been a problem ever since, but America was not founded upon it.