[Gene Eric]

>> showed him dressed as a freemason.

We’d probably need to see a pattern before condemning the Freemasons as well.

For what it’s not worth, I’m not a Freemason, but I’ve laid tile...

[Verginius Rufus]

Most of what I know about the Masons comes from reading War and Peace (one of the main characters gets initiated into a Masonic lodge) but I don't know how similar early 19th-century Russian Masons were to early 21st-century Norwegian Masons.

I've been to a couple of visitations which included a Masonic service for the deceased. Ironically, one of the men was a Catholic (but he had been a Mason before becoming a Catholic). I didn't notice anything in the service which could be considered controversial or offensive to Christians who weren't Masons.