(11070 - 1136), Cofounder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar. After being crushed by the Papacy in league with certain collaborators in (basically) a land grab of the Templars property, the survivors went underground (sometimes literally) as Masons;; and through their efforts, many of the large European Cathedrals were built. This Movement evolved into the Freemasons, and they along with the Quakers, played a major role in establishing the basic principles of American life prior to the 19-th century. The first part of the 19-th century was in a state of flux with the likes of Andrew Jackson, with emphasis on Western US expansion. A major change gooke place in the middle of the 19-th century with the rise of Methodism, an import from England; which by the early 19-th century became increasingly Fundamentalist with overtones of S. Baptist ideology. In view of the widespread virtual takeover of much of the U.S. by religious Fundamentalists, it ppears that heroic people like David Lynch have their work cut out for them.
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