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Originally Posted by MysticCat
No, Tom, they weren't.
The earliest GLOs, starting with Phi Beta Kappa, were started with an Enlightenment, humanist or rationalist background. After all, the very motto of Phi Beta Kappa, "Philosophy, the Guide (Helmsman) of Life," is a challenge to the view that God, Scripture or Religion is the "Guide of Life." The earliest GLOs were cut from a similar Enlightenment/rationalist/Deist cloth. It wasn't until later that GLOs began to take on a more Christian, and later Jewish, focus.
And many GLOs were were specifically founded with a non-sectarian focus, seeking to overcome divisions based on religion.
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What do you mean by your last sentence?
There I may disagree with you as most have a Religious of sort back ground in their Ritual and Tenents.
That is what they Were based on, not what goes on today?
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