Double tap to edit — God Giving Rights — One of the earliest Templar documents mentions “God giving rights”, just as Americans use this phrase in the Declaration of Independence, but that was in the 18th Century, the idea of God giving rights during the time of the Templars meant excommunication or worse death. Only the Roman Catholic Church could give someone rights, any alternative was bad for business and instead of worshiping Jesus, many Templars idolize “John the Baptist” who they believed initiated Jesus into Gnosticism, in the Great Pyramid. To the Templars, Jesus represented a Christos, a Universal Consciousness that anyone could access, similar to the Buddha. They learned that being born again didn’t refer to Baptism, it referred to reincarnation, when someone would literally be born again.