um...freemasony is NOT a religion...
Um, depends on what you mean by religion. Analytically, a religion may be defined as a self-consistent set of beliefs about God and man’s relationship to him. Freemasonry has a view of God that is essentially Unitarian. Whether you are Muslim or Jewish or Christian or Hindu, all roads lead to the same destination, the Celestial Lodge.
And how does one gain admission to said lodge? Through Masonic Morality. For more details, see here:
http://www.formermasons.org/issues/freemasonrys_plan_of_salvation.php
So freemasonry has the attributes of a well defined religion. Indeed, one of the problems people have with Mormonism is that it is basically a ripoff, a variant of freemasonry repackaged for modern consumption by ol’ Joe himself. One of the evidences of this, I am told, is the secret handshake required to get past hall monitor Joe in the afterlife; it is, according to some here on FR who have seen both, identical to one of the Masonic secret handshakes. Someone should probably post that on the web. Heaven for everyone. Who needs the dusty old Gospel when a secret handshake will do?
Um, depends on what you mean by religion. Analytically, a religion may be defined as a self-consistent set of beliefs about God and man’s relationship to him. Freemasonry has a view of God that is essentially Unitarian. Whether you are Muslim or Jewish or Christian or Hindu, all roads lead to the same destination, the Celestial Lodge.
And how does one gain admission to said lodge? Through Masonic Morality. For more details, see here:
http://www.formermasons.org/issues/freemasonrys_plan_of_salvation.php
So freemasonry has the attributes of a well defined religion. Indeed, one of the problems people have with Mormonism is that it is basically a ripoff, a variant of freemasonry repackaged for modern consumption by ol’ Joe himself. One of the evidences of this, I am told, is the secret handshake required to get past hall monitor Joe in the afterlife; it is, according to some here on FR who have seen both, identical to one of the Masonic secret handshakes. Someone should probably post that on the web. Heaven for everyone. Who needs the dusty old Gospel when a secret handshake will do?
Um, depends on what you mean by religion. Analytically, a religion may be defined as a self-consistent set of beliefs about God and man’s relationship to him. Freemasonry has a view of God that is essentially Unitarian. Whether you are Muslim or Jewish or Christian or Hindu, all roads lead to the same destination, the Celestial Lodge.
And how does one gain admission to said lodge? Through Masonic Morality. For more details, see here:
http://www.formermasons.org/issues/freemasonrys_plan_of_salvation.php
So freemasonry has the attributes of a well defined religion. Indeed, one of the problems people have with Mormonism is that it is basically a ripoff, a variant of freemasonry repackaged for modern consumption by ol’ Joe himself. One of the evidences of this, I am told, is the secret handshake required to get past hall monitor Joe in the afterlife; it is, according to some here on FR who have seen both, identical to one of the Masonic secret handshakes. Someone should probably post that on the web. Heaven for everyone. Who needs the dusty old Gospel when a secret handshake will do?